Why write a blog?

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This is a blog about blogging.  That might seem a little recursive (see picture on the right), but if you're reading this then you think it might be worth reading, so you might want to know about why I thought it was worth writing.


So why write a blog?  There are lots of other things I could be doing with my time: perfecting my skills and Super Monkey Balls Deluxe, learning to play the guitar, catching up on 19th century £1 classic novels.  Here are my three reasons:

1. Like everyone I think about life quite a bit.  It helps me to think more clearly if I can put my thoughts into words, and it forces me to be a bit more precise and disciplined about it if someone else might read those words.  So writing this blog helps me think.
2. I reckon that some of the thoughts and happenings I’ve gathered over the years are so valuable that I really would like to share them with a few more people.  Even if a few turns out to be 1, it would be well worth me writing this if a few more of my good friends had a chance to hear more of what’s in my head.  So reading this blog might help you think.
3. All my siblings and my Dad are now publishing online in some way and I don’t want to be left out J.

So that’s why I’m writing.  But why “treasure-hunter”?  Jesus talked about a man who had learnt about the kingdom of heaven as “bringing out of his storehouse new treasures as well as old”.  I like the idea of hunting for treasured chunks of wisdom and understanding about life, God, family, society and politics.  In my coming posts I hope to bring you treasures both new and old.