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Sad news today from one of the finest Christian bloggers to grace the Interweb.

Clayboy – Doug Chaplin – has announced he is to reduce his blogging output. His blog is on my very exclusive ‘must read’ list and I have learnt an awful lot from him.

Doug notes that blogging has been become something of a burden lately.

There is no doubt that blogging is a time vampire and I find myself in the ridiculous position of having 475 websites and blogs in my feedreader. I should guesstimate that I have something in the region of 1000 news items per day.

But I just can’t stop. I am indeed hopelessly addicted to blogging and God willing will be blogging for some time yet.

To give you some idea, last night I had a dream that my garden was inexplicably full of toast. My first thought. I must grab the camera and blog this.

If that wasn’t disturbing enough, the other day I had a vivid and horrifying dream that I was in central London with Gregg and witnessed an airbus crash. My first thought. I must get home and blog about this. Now that’s just plain sick.

Freud would have a field day with me.

Although, as far as disturbing dreams go, Gregg pips me at the post, as he once had a dream so terrifying he ripped down the curtains and rail in a h0tel room trying to get out!

I even recently blogged from hospital!

I will say that blogging is a thankless task most of the time. I’m fortunate that I have a fairly large readership for a low-level niche blog. I can’t help but measure success by traffic, which is probably not healthy nor valid. I will say that in the past when I was a fully paid up fundie literalist ‘sin’ basher, I attracted more traffic. Nuanced, balanced, and non-controversial, is not conducive to high traffic.

Although we shouldn’t blog for the kudos or thanks – as we would soon become disillusioned – once in a while we get a much needed boost, and I did so a couple of days ago via email.

I’ve had my ‘Echoes of God‘ page up for a year or so now and have never before received a positive comment, until now.

Your piece “Echoes of God” is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read. I am always a little sad on the Feast of the Ascension. This certainly gives me a deeper appreciation and hope

Thank you very much.
Maria,
Ohio,United States

So, thank you Maria for taking the time to give me a boost, it’s more appreciated than you know.

And thank you Doug, for your wonderful blogging. I’m glad you’re not vanishing completely, and look forward to the ‘one or two ideas and projects on the horizon‘.

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