Recently I posted the following to friends and families "comments" (don't feel left out if I didn't make it to your BLOG-I only have so many hours in a day! and I was supposed to be working on my seminary lesson!):
"It is valuable that good young families share their ideals online and it reminded me of this thought by President Ballard: --Elder M. Russell Ballard, an apostle in the Church, told the mostly Mormon, graduating students at Brigham Young University-Hawaii to use the Internet — including blogs and other forms of “new media” — to contribute to a national conversation about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "
Great a wonderful excuse for my wandering mind and thoughts that I call my online journal (BLOG)! Up until now I had a hard time justifying why I kept one. My over riding excuse was that my relatives from far away could keep up on my once-a-year Christmas update and I could avoid postage.
But how do I rectify the hours spent lurking on others blogs??? Ummm, looking for material from greater minds??? Sure. enhancing others with my witty one line reparte? of course. feeding people's self worth by commenting? check. lowering my self-esteem for not having accomplished what some people write about. ouch. finding ways to lure people into saying I obviously have the cutest granddaughters? you bet. Shedding light on the gospel that is so integral in my life?...well I guess that comes from the everyday living and loving that families just go about doing and sharing on their blogs. the love and caring (and yes the frustration) because that's what we do best...it's what eternity is all about.
