White Noise and info overload......

Thank you again for stopping by and I am honored that you take the time to read thoughts.  For the last couple of days I have considered what I want this to be.  Facebook, Twitter and other sites have become like an archery competition.  Everyone throwing thoughts like arrows out into cyberspace for all to see.

 No depth.  

No deep connection.  

Now before you go thinking I am just bashing Facebook.  I am not.  I love Facebook.  I enjoy connections I have made and renewed on there.  But after reading my posts or me reading yours, do we know each any better?

I was driving to my core workout class this morning and I stopped at a light behind a Nissan Versa.  Or at least I think it was a Versa.  It was difficult to tell because the entire back of the person's car was plastered in bumper stickers in a manner that made it look more like a patchwork quilt than a hatchback vehicle.  I looked at this car and asked myself what the owner was trying to say.  They were obviously trying to tell me something.  They must have had some very deep rooted beliefs in some various subjects to pepper their transportation source with such a colorful display.   But, as the light turned green and they turned and I continued on, their desperate attempt to convey messages to me was a failure.  It was too many images, too many messages and not enough space, or time to process them all.  

I wanted to take that lesson to heart as I branched out in a new social media type of form.  Communication has always been a priority for me.  (Ask my family and you will probably get giggles and eye rolls, because in their mind I have not shut my mouth since being born.) As a person that tends to over communicate, my hope in this space is to suppress that and instead replace it with a place for me to meaningfully communicate.  As I come here and reflect I hope to not just be white noise to you.  When we part ways each time from this cyber "chat" we both feel that it was worth our time to be here.    So my presence here may be weekly at times or a couple times a month.  I have no desire to annoy someone who enters with an abundance of opinions or rants.  Nor do I wish to portray a picturesque life here that is not true to our household and home.  

When you do come I hope to welcome you and each of us leaves feeling we can lead our lives in glory to God just a bit better than when we first came.  This may be a lofty idea.  I may fail, many times in that goal, but we can strive.  Most of all, in all we do it needs to bring glory to God.  If I fail in that you would be a friend to me by showing me.  I always want to leave a conversation with love.  Love never fails, but it sometimes can say things that we do not like to hear.  That is okay.  Conversation by its very nature should be engaging and not just soothing, telling us everything we like to hear.  It should make us think, act or change.  However, I will try to observe 1 Corinthians 13:1 when I speak:

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."

No noisy gong or clanging cymbal in this space!  No Versa's with an overload of messages and no white noise machines that fade into the background.  Meaningful communication is the order of the day.