Blogger Intentionality

"If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it everytime."

I don't know who originally said that. But it doesn't matter.

I've been thinking about the intentionality of this blog site. Why am I blogging? Why should you read it? Why would I want you to read it? Should I want to want you to read it?

Some days I read a lot of blogs. Other days I don't read any at all. I'm hardly a faithful follower of any in particular. So I'm not sure of all the ins and outs of an intentional blog, outside of a professional attempting to bite-size-ify their vast knowledge of something specific.

I think what I do is a little different.

Well, I hope that it is.

I tend to synthesize everything that is going on in my life, both outside and in, and present it in a way that might be interesting to read or remember. Or confirm suspicions of my lunacy. It's cool either way.

Or maybe that's all in hindsight.

I think that philosophy is mostly in hindsight.

Perhaps theology, too.

Maybe intentionality is something to be handled loosely. Like most creative things, to put too much emphasis on the overt "Message" often kills the delicate nature of any beauty it might yield.

And beauty, as we all have experienced at some point or another, often serves to magnify any "Message" tenfold.

Jesus preached outright for a while, then turned to parables.

Did his intentionality change? Hardly.

But in parables everything gets swirled around a bit, and the interplay of culture and story and character and situation reveal different and exciting parts of each other.

May that swirling be my intentionality, too.