This blog is closing.

Hi folks.  I’ve decided to close down this blog.  I’ll probably delete it in about two weeks.  Thank you all for your love and for your comments.  I’ve learned a lot from you.  If anyone has subscribed to the feed — you might want to remove it from your RSS reader.  That’s all.  The rest of this post is just rambling.

“Why?” you ask.  Well…

My purpose for this blog was to sort of hold myself accountable for daily bible study.  To that end, the blog was pretty distracting.  Instead of focusing on the word — I was always trying to come up with something witty or profound.  On the one hand, this helped me in the “application” phase of the bible study.  On the other hand, I had trouble getting past the fact that people are watching.

The secondary purpose was to show myself un-coward-like when posting comments on other people’s blogs.  It’s aweful comfortable to make (possibly critical) comments at other peoples thoughts — but not provide any thoughts of your own for criticism.

Thanks for reading, thanks for participating!

If anyone has read down this far — thanks.    In case you’re interested, I’ll be keeping the “Rock Log” on Blogger.  I kind of like WordPress a little better — but, oh well.

You know (I’m rambling now), another reason for killing the blog:  Part of me (the bad part of me) wants to get an ego boost out of this.  Sort of like a social suicide, “Will they miss me?  Will they care that I’m gone?  Did they really care what I thought?”  These sort of thoughts are evil — but I’m mega-prone to them (especially when I’m down).  My ego wants to hear people say, “Oh, Gabriel, please don’t stop the bible blog.  You’re so awesome!”  I’ve even been debating about whether or not to disable comments on this post:  allow them (“please, please feed me ego!”) or disallow them (“so long, cruel world!”).  Aaaarrgh!  How do you rid yourself of this sort of self-centered-ness?  Jesus has delivered me from a lot, but he seems to tarry on this one.  *sigh*