Blogger's Block

You have heard of writers who get writer’s block, well its distant cousin is Blogger’s Block. There is little known about what causes it, but apparently it can be a small thing. I don’t know how you deal with the things on your mind, for my part I tend to write it down. I suppose that makes me a blogger of sorts. Not so much to get a response, but as a kind of therapy to face the issues that mean something to me.

I usually end up writing about matters of faith, because that is the subject that means
the most to me, and in a normal week about 2 or 3 blogs will be written and possibly
published on a couple of systems. Responses are good for the most part, and even those
who would not claim to be of the same church or faith group will be positive in their
comments. So, what has happened during this month’s dry spell?

When something rocks the foundation of your belief system, it drags you down, and in
dragging you down you stop doing those normal routine things. The bottom line is that
you don’t see a way to work through your ‘problem’, and so the Blogger’s Block happens.
Fortunately this doesn’t happen often, and my solution is to give it enough time to
percolate through my subconscious and convince myself the thing I worried about
was never really a problem in the first place. Was it? Or is it still there?

Asset or Liability?

I don’t profess to be an accountant, but I can grasp the concept of a financial asset, against a liability. One is a good thing, the other is not. One gives a plus amount in the ledger, but the other takes away from the account. Any accountant worth his or her salt wants plenty of assets, but no liabilities. Not even one!

In our journey through life as Christians, we want to be considered an asset to the Kingdom of God. It would hurt us to think that we might be a liability to the witness of the salvation we profess. We are warned about being a liability, and the Bible would call this a ‘stumbling block’ as shown in Romans 14:13 which says, “Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.”

So, what’s our lifestyle like? Do we help or hinder the young in faith, no matter their age? After all, we have so much to learn and we should want to grow into an asset, not a liability, as we help others to become an asset too, so keeping the cycle going.

Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. Mark 9:42