Scoblizer brings up a great point for blogs as listening. It’s a great way to “tune in” to what friends are thinking about. It’s a good way to “allow” others to listen to me. It’s a way to put what I want “out there”, out there. It’s a rather important place for that rreason. A lot of what is here is ME, and how many others are influencing me and making me think. That sounds a lot like what ought to be going on in churches. It sounds a lot like what ought to be OFFERED by churches as furthering the conversations, making them more readily available, and telling the story of the community in a variety of ways and narratives.

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I’ve realized that what got me here was listening. Listening to my friends talk about their lives. Listening to software developers complaining how hard it is to deal with Microsoft (or how hard our software is to use). Listening to people living their lives and noticing THEM.

Why do I read blogs? To learn about my friends so that I have something to talk with them about. Garrett Fitzgerald, for instance, tells about loving to watch the C5s landing at an airstrip near his house. That brought back memories of seeing the same land at Moffett Field in Silicon Valley (my dad used to work at Lockheed so I had a few opportunities to visit the airbase).

Excellent post, Robert!