'I must be an acrobat, to talk like this and act like that...' -Actung Baby,U2
I am Jacob Bailey. I have been writing here for a while now. I am 27 years old, on the brink of moving to Spain. I love my wife and two beautiful children. Glad you stopped by - please let me know you were here by posting a comment.
leading with QUESTIONS
Saturday, July 23, 2005
that's a wrap, obviously you can see I am having problems with blogger..
Hey, that's all. That's a wrap here. I am moving over to www.4peregrinos.com. It's been fun. Blogger has been absolutely solid and totally free. What can I say?
I would love to hear from at the new site! Peace.
---Jafro(jacob)---
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Are you a lonely blogger?
I think a blog, i mean this place rigth here can be on of the loneliest spaces to "occupy". It must be something like living in a large city but knowing and interacting with no one. It must be that kind of loneliness - surrounded by so many but connecting with so few. That's internet blogging at it worst. I have been there. Here are the warning signs: You ruthlessly check and recheck you blog comments daily even though you never find any. You obsessively frequent other busy blogs dropping comments often. You secretly wish others would have something to say to you...blah, blah, blah...maybe it hasn't gotten that bad for you...maybe I am a little crazy. But it still holds the same I wonder how many "lonely bloggers" there are out there?
But what a great discipline to move into. What if lonely bloggers pushed through and discovered another reason to blog - beyond just simply trying to recieve from others? What if the reason for blogging in the first place changed and became a free offering? What if my or your blog post were just a selfless offering to the world (or whoever may or may not drop by)?
So that is and has been my resolve to simply continue, beyond my we ingrained consumerism (where I want to take everything from everything and everyone all the time) to a sort of free offering. This is my attempt to give back - not to someone secifically and with an attempt to do away with alterior motives. I want simply to offer myself - and require none or nothing back...
This is an aspect of the person of Jesus that I am most attracted too. It also the aspect of this God/man that I find my difficult - a road or incline I find most challenging to ascend.
