Positivity
I know people have noticed a lack of my usual deep, critical, reflections on the blog since before the summer. So I thought I should try and explain a little bit why (I think bullet points is the best way to do this, although it seems a bit weird).
- I think a little bit is down to the sluggishness of the holidays – a guy's gotta take a break sometime.
- I've tried to make a conscious decision to be much more positive and constructive, rather than critical and deconstructive – in general but especially with the blog. And sometimes, sadly, that means I don't have so much to say.
- Now living with three (soon to be four) others my own age, and in an awesome, open, Christlike environment suddenly my creative energies are being pushed much more into chatting and reflecting with my housemates. I think in the past, the blog has been a way of venting when I haven't had anyone else to talk to – this hasn't always worked out well.
So I'm committed to keeping the blog going, but it's just taking a little time to discover a slightly different way of writing. I've just posted the first post on Surprised by Hope – which gives me some structured content to reflect on and so hopefully should get the juices flowing a bit. Oh, and I also have a new design for the blog planned fairly soon.
So hopefully the blogs should be just as deep as they were, but much more creative and constructive, soon enough. It's easy to get stuck in a deconstructive pattern of reflection – especially in the first year of a theology degree – but I think it's time to move onto pastures greener.
The results should be much more innovative, more creative, and more outside-the-box.
If anyone has any ideas for where to start reflecting more positively – or subjects I've blogged about in the past which you'd like me to follow through a bit further (usually reconstruct what's left after my deconstruction) – then please share in the comments below…
