A new blogging day for me

Back in the dark ages (well, the early 2000s), my colleague and friend Michael Barlowe told me about a new, free, internet presence called Blogger. In those times, you had to be able to wade through html programming a bit, had to spend amazing time setting a blog up, and most of all, really WANT to be a blogger.  I decided that it was a quick and easy (!) way to produce a parish website. And so I did...as an interim measure!

I also decided to start a personal blog. I have loved doing the website and the blog, here and there, for these last years.

As with many things in the church, interim turned out to be about ten years. Today, we have a highly tech-savvy congregation, people who want to be involved in our social media outreach, and more than anything, parishioners who are willing to put in the time to make us evermore available on the web.

I have decided that one blog is really all I can handle. And its audience is whoever will read it...parishioners, friends, teammates, people in the blogosphere. I have been having interesting conversations about internet presence with colleagues lately, and it strikes me that at this point in my life, it really is too much trouble to try and segregate who reads what. I use writing to work things out, to ponder, to consider, and if that is helpful to others, I am grateful and thankful. I know it is helpful to me.

So the Nativity website and my RevRows blog hereby morph into one blog, which I will still call RevRows. Our parish member and communications guru Trish urges me to write reflections instead of worrying about keeping the website content current. And so I will. And I will unabashedly write about all I learn from rowing and my team, which is significant and essential to my life as a priest.

 I view the internet and social media as an opportunity  to be in relationship with all sorts of people in our own time, in a way that people are reached most frequently these days.  On Sunday, I will tell our children about the time before computers, as a matter of understanding what faith and belief mean. Pray for me! ;)