My Blogging Fuel

The past three of four days, I have had a renewed sense that I have to blog.  And take note of the italics, because I really do mean ‘have’ to.  Not so much want to, but have to.  For blogging, at least for me, serves as a release for thoughts going on inside my head.  At least the posts that are worth reading.  I mean, funny pictures of my kids aren’t exactly ‘have to’ posts, but then again, if I think they are funny, I just ‘have to’ share them.

In all seriousness, I’m usually thinking about something, learning something new, being challenged on some front in my life.  So I blog about it.  I write because I am learning and in order to learn.  And I hope that what I have to share ends up serving someone else.

The interesting thing about this ‘have to’ is that is virtually always coincides with consistent reading on my part.  Reading, I have learned, is my blogging fuel.  And though I have read a good number of books over the past 3-4 months, I have not been as consistent as I usually am or as I like to be.  And my blogging, I realize, has been inconsistent as a result.

But over the past 10 days or so, I have worked to get back into my consistent reading habit.  I have reread one of my favorite books, Creation Regained, about which I will certainly post.  And over the past two days, I have read a book by Ted Kluck entitled, The Reason for Sports.  It was an easy read and a very enjoyable one.  Both combined to compel me to blog once again.

Lesson learned:  Read much and blog posts will come (at least I think).