What Is A Blog??

That is the question that I have been trying to answer these past six months. Exactly what is a blog??

I have heard a blog defined as the realm where little people try to feel important by writing down their thoughts for the world to see. As I searched my heart, I realized that I am a "small" person standing only 5' tall, I do not write this blog to try to feel important. Truth is that I have never felt overly important. In fact, in God's view of creation, I am totally expendable. The Bible says that He could use rocks to glorify His name. Have you seen how many rocks are around?? Anyway, who wants to be shown up by a rock?

I have also seen, as I cruised around the blogosphere, that a great many people use their blogs to espouse their political beliefs and comment on the days events. Democrats and republicans of all ages use their blogs to try to sway people to their way of thinking about issues and candidates. Personally, I am a political independent with no urge to tell anyone how to vote...particularly myself. I always thought democracy was about voting for people not parties and that men and women have fought for the right for my vote to be a secret. Yet I receive every campaign season wanting to know how I voted and how I good a job I think the President is doing. I find that strange since it really doesn't matter how I think about the job he is doing. After all, he is going to be President until the next election, isn't he?

Another type of blog I have seen is used to keep people updated on people they have asked prayer for. I like those kind of blogs. On Facebook friends will ask you to pray but never update the status to tell you how it all turned out. I have been tracking a 5-year-old with brain cancer that way so I know what to specifically pray for her and her parents that day. I see those blogs very useful.

There are the celebrity blogs, though not many celebrities blog anymore. What with Facebook and Twitter where they only have to write 142 words instead of a whole paragraph. That's probably a good thing since they are so busy making movies and such. I watched "Celebrity Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" a few weeks ago and I am not sure I would want to read a blog by a celebrity. In five days not ONE celebrity was smarter than a fifth grader. I think I would rather them tweet than blog.

I also found how-to, how-don't, fashion, news, as well as blogs that just don't seem to have a purpose at all.

In all of this I have found a purpose for this blog. My purpose is exactly what the subtitle says, finding God in the every day things. I believe that God is everywhere and that He is actively involved in my life. I seem to see Him and the lessons He wants to teach me EVERYWHERE!
I have been told not everyone can do that and I should share my gift so they can know where to start looking...to quit looking for the "big" miracle and realize that most of God's miracles are in the small, mundane things of life.

I was told two things that have brought me back to the blogosphere. First, an older and wiser Christian who is known for speaking his mind told me that my writing was a gift from God and that I shouldn't waste it. The second was a sermon that I heard last Sunday at the baby dedication of my niece's baby. The pastor said that God gives you gifts and you should never be afraid to use them nor be afraid of what people say about you. Ouch!

So, I have decided that now that I have true purpose and I have always intended this blog to be about God, not me I am going to try, yet again, to bring God glory through the things He allows me to see and think. I may not be the brightest crayon in God's box, but even white has a purpose.