Of Blogs and Journals

I love Sundays. My church family, like my earthly family, always bless me... and as the years go by, I am increasingly interdependent with both. Too bad, I was so task oriented for the majority of my life. I missed a lot simply trying to get everything done. My motor runs fast, but not as fast as it used to.

After church we went out to eat with a group from the Seniors Sunday school class. We always enjoy these outings so much. Good conversations, good food, good friends. Once we were home, I took a nap that lasted all afternoon. I didn't wake up until almost time to go to evening church. Now I'm tired again, so this will be a short blog.

Speaking of blogs, I started blogging August 9, 2005, and my blog appears in four places on the web:

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  http://www.fbcgalt.org/iona's_blog.htm
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  http://ionanet.com/blog/ionasblog.htm
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  http://myspace.com/ionaruth
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  http://360.yahoo.com/ionaruth

Why post the same blog in all those places? Because in each place I reach a different kind of reader. I am actually quite surprised at the response from the different sites. Then there is the question of what my blog is about, what's its purpose? Does it have a theme? No one knows for sure... especially me. My posts are all over the literary map. Here's how I described it on Blogger:

It's a journal. It's a devotional. It's a record of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivor. It's documentation of God's activities in real time. There are good days and bad, happy times and sad... I tell it like it is. This is an unscripted walk along the meandering paths of my mind. My life has never been dull... and I've never known boredom. Read on, you'll see...

But that is not quite accurate. Before I was blogging, I kept a journal on my own computer. My blogs are written knowing others might read them... indeed a great number of all kinds of "others" DO read them. But my journals were between God and me. I wrote in a different style and opened my thoughts in a more intimate way. I have been uploading my journals (as opposed to blogs) to http://livejournal.com and I've been reading through them as I went, and I noticed a distinct difference.

So, for me at least, a journal differs from a blog. Yet I see that I wrote very few journal entries after I started blogging. Well, I'm too tired to analyze tonight... AWAT