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I’ve been blogging for almost a month now. I had a very clear mission for my blogging when I started: give insight about life in this fallen world in the light of faith in Jesus. But I admit that I thought that blogging would be a lot more different than it actually is.
I thought that I would write for half an hour and the blogging job would be done. WRONG! I found out that blogging takes up a lot of my thinking. Everything around me could be a potential article, and I need to be aware so that I don’t miss that one inspiration. I find myself thinking a lot about what to write, how to write it; and when I’m done with that, I find myself thinking about what to write next. It can be exhausting.
I thought that everyone would want to read my blog. I thought it would be so easy to get many subscribers, many blog views, many comments, etc. But it isn’t. And I find myself obsessing a little bit about site stats and referrers and SEO. It can be exhausting. Especially, because at the end of the day, obsessing over these things makes me forget that the reason for writing is to edify whoever reads the blog, whether it be 3 people or ten thousand people.
I thought blogging would be easier in general. I thought that I would always want to blog, that words would emanate from me so easily. But most of the times, Continue reading
