This Year's Experiment

About 6 years ago I discovered blogs, and I absolutely loved the medium.  Loved the pictures, the personal touch, and the way I could be connected to real people, not just celebrities.

I started my own blog soon after.  Finally at the beginning of last year I decided to give an honest year to it as a business endeavor.  To me an "honest year" included posting every day.  I'm not sure if that was a good choice or a bad one, but it let me really share a lot.

I had several reasons to really do a lot of blogging.  One was business, but the other was a personal scrapbook of our journey/adventure of buying this home and attempting to make it livable.  It is definitely that...even though there are lots of detailed projects still to do.

Another reason was as a form of therapy for some intense pain and trauma I had experienced the year before.  2011 was horrible for me.  Even in my youth I had never experienced the level of bullying, betrayal and social isolation that I experienced.  Oh, and the manipulation into a bad building experience.  Thankfully God swooped in and rescued me before it went too far.  But knowing it almost/could/did happen caused  a host of things I needed to heal from.  So I thought this blog could help with that.

Conclusion?  Public forums aren't really the best therapy.  Face to face time with a counselor is awesome.  Talk time with real friends is awesome.  Personal spiritual time is awesome.  And journaling is one of my favorite helps.  But public blogging lacks a little.

So my conclusion for myself, and advice to you if you want some:  is keep a personal journal.  I've returned to mine the last few weeks and I realized how much it helped me.  I keep many of my prayers in there.  It's easier sometimes for me to write than try to express those feelings and questions in my head.  When I write I can also clearly express the experiences and moments that happen later when my prayers are answered.