blogging
blog in
be the log in
be the log in your own eye
dictating what you write
and who and how and why you want to impress those looking in
who are these audients you seem to seek so hard to impress?
and cajole and coax
into liking and retweeting
posting and sharing
and gushing over all your stuff?
who are all these spectators?
speck takers?
who you care about so highly as to write so closely between the lines of what they are wanting to read?
to the exclusion of what you know you should be writing?
or would know you should be writing
were you giving more attention to the still small voice.
or any attention at all, really.
but no, there is no time
you. are. on. the. move. (really! i’m certainly not lion here)
checking on site stats,
on page hits,
on follows, on retweets,
on comments, on Comet,
“On Cupid, On Donner, On Blitzen… Did I leave anyone out?”
do you leave anyone out?
have you made your list and checked it twice?
the liberals, the feminists, the Anabaptists, the gays?
the pre-reformed post-apocalyptic millennial calvinist pentecostal
resaved revirgined unconfirmed church-of-the-toxic-writhing-defanged-serpent brethren?
thou. shalt. not. offend. anyone.
except God.
oh, you can offend Him alright.
But He is thick-skinned, so don’t worry about Him
He’ll get over it quickly
He is, after all, all about Love, right?
He is, after all, about inclusion?
He is after all. Right?
and so it kinda makes sense that you are as well…
after all, the attention
after all, the followers
after all, the applause
after all.
but the word must get out
the word will get out
this word will not return void
this Word will not return void
the Word and the words will be spoken
if not by you, then by someone else
someone who is not all concerned about those who are watching
who are listening in
who are waiting for a word to be written out of line
out of the lines
that they have drawn
someone who will speak the words that need to be spoken
no matter what the consequence might be to themself
no matter what backlash might present itself
or be thrown mercilessly at them
or hungrily devoured and spewed out again by some comment-heavy troll
someone who will not simply speak the words that the itching ears of the crowds want to hear
that make them feel good, or fall neatly within their confines of what is allowed
of what they allow
someone who will do that which needs to be done
because it needs to be done
needs to be said or written or pronounced
and if that person does not exist
if that person needing to say that thing that needs to be said
share that thought that needs to be passed on
or pronounce that politically incorrect notion of a handed down Truth
if they do not raise their hand
or step up to the keyboard
or make themselves known
what then?
well, if that were to happen
if no-one was to be found who could deliver the message
no one at all
in any place, at any time
then the very words would write themselves
the very Word would write, Himself
this Word will not return void
this Word will.
it’s not going to be stopped!
so really the question just becomes to you
what will you do?
who will you be?
who will you be for?
and to what extent will you change any of that for those who don’t really matter
really
and just start writing for you
and from you
and for Him
and that’s all.
