On Blogging Funks

Elaine, one of my favorite Christian bloggers, sent me an email yesterday talking intimately about her current blogging funk. I immediately understood.

This post is an answer to a question she posed: What holds you back from blogging?

With increasing responsibilities from work and a seemingly endless pile of books to read and review, it is easy for me to succumb to my feelings in inadequacy.

What holds me back from blogging?

Feeling that since I have a niche blog (about books) and few readers, there really isn't any reason for me to continue with certain challenges.
Feeling that no one really wants to hear what I have to say about various topics.

Elaine said sometimes you need to SIT. DOWN. IN. THE. CHAIR. AND. BLOG. (Yes, she said it just like that.) So, I thought about the two main things that I think are hurdles. Then, I remembered her book and how it really inspired me.

Whether I have readers or not, I have been given a talent and platform. I have been called by God to blog. And...that's what I am going to do.

I won't try fancy, self-created tags. I will just blog.

I won't try to be simple or average. I know my voice, though it is often criticized as being to elitist, professional, or corporate-like. Well, that is who I am. It is time I accept it.