  Like most bloggers, I started blogging not knowing how long I would do it. I had been in the blogosphere as a reader for less than a week, and said, "Why not? " As I mentioned in my first or second post, I am at a point in my life where I realized (thanks to Jane) a need to be more introspective. I've got issues with intimacy, a tendency towards internet addiction (probably connected with the intimacy thing), maybe other junk, too. How much is a result of my parents' divorce 20 years ago? Dunno. So I decided that blogging might be a good way for me to work through some of this, as well as tackling theological issues and stuff I face in daily life. When you blog, what you write has to be readable, and therefore thought through. Many of you have written about the "slippery slope" of blogging, as my wife calls it. Today I'd like to draw your attention to a few great posts dealing with said slope. The first was written by Jeff at The Dawn Treader, called urlLink This Phenomenon Called Blogging . Incidentally, my wife wrote a urlLink couple comments &nbsp;to that post that are WELL worth the read.
Mac Swift at Vessel of Honour also urlLink recently wondered if he should even keep up blogging because of how it sucks him in. A third good read is from journeyman james, who worked through his motives and blog content urlLink here .&nbsp; He closes with a creed written by St. John Damascene, and has made it his "Blog Creed.
" It reads as follows: &nbsp; In the first place, then, before speaking to you, I beseech Almighty God, to whom all things lie open, who knows my small capacity and my genuine intention, to bless the words of my mouth, and to enable me to bridle my mind and direct it to Him, to walk in His presence straightly, not declining to a plausible right hand, nor knowing the left. Then I ask all God’s people, the chosen ones of His royal priesthood, with the holy shepherd of Christ’s orthodox flock, who represents in his own person Christ’s priesthood, to receive my treatise with kindness. They must not dwell on my unworthiness, nor seek for eloquence, for I am only too conscious of my shortcomings. They must consider the thoughts themselves. The kingdom of heaven is not in word but in deed.
Conquest is not my object. I raise a hand which is fighting for the truth—a willing hand under the divine guidance. Relying, then, upon substantial truth as my auxiliary, I will enter on my subject matter. &nbsp; Thanks for encouraging me along my spiritual journey, whether through your comments, e-mails or blogs you yourselves write. 
