fine line - huge difference

So I was thinking about this blogging deal - benefits, costs, fears, good and bad blog etiquette, the humiliation of poor grammar being posted within one's blog...

Anyway, under benefits I mentally noted blogging might lead to a heightened sense of self-awareness. To write anything beyond mere data requires writing from the heart. To do that one must know the heart. So maybe this whole blog thing will help me look into my own life at a deeper level and the byproduct: self-awareness.

Of course there is a fine line between being self-aware and self-absorbed. We've all encountered people who have low self-awareness who are very self-absorbed. The more they think about themselves the less aware they become. These are not fun people to be around. But a person who is self-aware lives a deeper, richer and more purpose filled life.

Maybe there's a fine line, but there is a huge difference. I see I'm writing as if self-awareness and self-absorption were constants. They aren't. There are times when my wife would tell you I am very self-absorbed and not self-aware in family settings. Other times, when I'm on top of my game I am self-aware and more able to focus on the feelings and needs of others.

Related Tangent?

Merv (worship pastor at crossWinds) and I were talking about people who torture themselves with their own thoughts. Hmmm...

Related Scripture?

22 “The Son of Man must suffer many terrible things,” he said. “He will be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead.”

23 Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow me.

Luke 9:22-23 (New Living Translation)


Related Apology

I'm really not looking to be preachy in the blog. I have enough of that in my life...