What is it about women blogging that draws snickering from kids, rolled eyes from husbands, disdain from intellectuals? Granted, it's not brain surgery. It's frequently self-indulgent musings, whining, ranting, self-reflection. But you know what? It's also a web of souls connected. Strangers who put their lives out there for whatever reasons, searching, seeking, living. People who are deeply touched by other's joys and sufferings, reaching out to lend love and support because really, your children are my children. Your heartbreak could easily be mine. I sat in tears today reading a friend's blog that told me about two year old Cora who recently succumbed to cancer. And last year I learned about little Gloria who also passed away at the tender age of 6. Her short life was remarkable. She had love and devotion for God that was supernatural. She taught so many people about life, and faith. A profound testimony that I was able to witness because of her mother's blog.
I have also "met" so many interesting, creative, faithful, genius, hysterically funny women wandering from one blog to another. In a very discouraging and often godless world I am lifted up by these incredible people. They are a light shining through the darkness. Because we know afterall that this incredible tool we use for our education and entertainment is also a conduit for trash and hate.
Of course it would be wonderful if we could have these encounters and "conversations" in person but life is what it is. Seek out the good and beautiful and humorous in the world because it gives life. Pass on the stories of suffering as well as beauty because there is God in the suffering too. An even if the story ends with death, it is just the beginning of the next chapter. The most beautiful one of all.
1 comment:
i'm not snickering, don't worry.
what i love about blogging, especially reading yours, is that you get to see a whole other side to a person through their writing. it's like being able to visualize someone's thoughts. I have to say, I had never gotten to read anything you'd really written aside from birthday cards and the like, and it's wonderful to get to read your blog. I feel like, while you can say the internet is so disconnected, I feel like blogging has actually made me get to know you more, if that's possible. i mean, you are my mother.
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