I stole about 30 minutes earlier this week to catch up on some of my favorite blogs. I found myself writing comments to encourage them… Most are friend-bloggers or artist/creative bloggers. Knowing that some are facing tough times really left me burdened to encourage. So I started comment/typing away.
Then I started thinking about how encouraging this internet-network has been to me – and still is… And I started thinking about how bloggers contribute so much to the world-wide-web conversation. They give so much because they give themselves. They give their hearts. What they are thinking. What they are going through. What they are struggling with. What they are celebrating. So much goes into our feed readers. So much heart and soul.
And I was very very thankful. Thankful for those blogs lining my feed-reader list that I can hardly get to anymore. But thankful for the connection. Thankful for the heart-felt sincere sharing that goes on.
And I had a thought. I want to do more to encourage. I don’t know when or how, but I want to do more to encourage those who are on the other side of the wi-fi connection who are connected to me.
And I want to ask you to do the same. Maybe this weekend, or over the next week, take some time to hit up your favorite blogger people. Send them an email or leave a comment letting them know just how thankful you are and that you don’t take their sharing lightly. Encourage.
After all, they are sharing themselves. With you.
This is something that has been on my heart lately. When I started my blog last September it quickly became all about me! me! me! and I forgot that one of the big reasons I ever started a blog was because I was so blessed and inspired by so many wonderful bloggers and I had stopped pouring encouragement and gratefulness into their blogs. So I’m trying to do better. And I don’t want to write a bunch of fluff that isn’t sincere, but I do want to encourage and express my gratitude. Because I really am thankful for each and every one of them. And you, by the way. I always enjoy reading your blog (and that isn’t fluff!).
I too love the people who make up the blog world. You have an excellent idea and one I need to embrace. Thank you!
Great reminder, Mandy! I’ve been realizing lately that as I add more blogs to my reader, I spend less quality time with my favorites (like YOU!). And I think there’s something wrong with that…
oh the addition that blogging has made on my life…
this single addition is pregnant with the love, loyalty and friendship that it created with but a few type-written words.
I love you miss mandy mac (and LOVE the memories in that picture…the fear of maybe getting lost in that corn maze then feeling secure in your amazingly robust sense of direction…the sweat we each endured to carry our alece around w/ us…the cider…the everything)
you are loved.
and hopefully
encouraged!
I’m just relieved that I’m not the only one struggling to make it into Google Reader these days.
just coming back again to say you’re loved.
i get lots of encouragement from you, mandy. as well as the occasional swift kick in the bootay
for which…i AM grateful for.
i love to encourage people and am with you in this, totally!
i love you miss mandy pants!
You do this well Mandy. You love well. You are an amazing love(er) of people and of God and I learn from you daily. Thank you for that.