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*
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“Oh, Gabriel, please don’t stop the bible blog. You’re so awesome!”
I did enjoy these, you will be missed, you have been missed. I have looked at your name on my little blogroll and wondered where you have been.
What she said. I’m bummed. My suggestion is that you take my approach: embrace rambling and commit to spewing crap. No really. It doesn’t–in itself–kill the evil ego tendencies but I’d argue that those leftover are what you’d have in normal conversation anyway. Yeah, I don’t know what to say about the ego thing. Honestly, I just try not to think about it or I get hamstrung–and that applies in every form of expression. And maybe we should all shut up and enjoy silence. . . . But maybe we shouldn’t. I vote for dialog and may the Lord hammer out our imperfections in the messy caldron of conversation. I could go on. We are repressed, bro. Fight the oppression. The super ego is no better than the ego; that’s not what the “super” stands for.
But maybe you feel that your rock block is somehow more indigenous and fulfills that purpose better. But as you said, WordPress is a nice place to be.
I vote that you just adapt this blog and stay out here; that allows for the perpetuity of the benefit of your blog and the conversation it inspired. And maybe it’s pride that’s prompting you to close it down. I find that the more my words linger in the interspace the more humbled I am by them. Seriously.
Yaknow, this doesn’t have to be an unbroken font of wisdom. It can be intermittent and more varied and just personal. I like being able to connect here. Yeah, I vote you stay.
Not that you offered us a vote. I mean, I guess you can be an anti-American commie and disenfranchise us all. You could do that. I’m hoping for better. Heehee, I have the audacity to hope. And I’m hoping for a change I can believe in, yaknow, ’cause that’s the hope du jour. ;-D
But seriously, stay. And I don’t think I’m necessarily being the voice of the devil.
See, and now that there is a relative flurry of activity at my site, I could feel guilty that I was fishing . . . which I don’t think I was, but I could feel guilty about it.
Ooh. I see “rock block” and meant “rock blog.” More humility . . . or humiliation. Christine just wrote a blog about ellipses.
No!!!!! You can’t Gabe!!!!! I’ll miss you on here bro.
Thanks guys!
The blog is still slated for execution, though. I’ll probably re-purpose the Rock Blog to be a little broader in scope, though (Rock, IT, Bible, etc.).
@Joel: My visit to your site was completely unsolicited.
I’ve been meaning to go over and see what you’re up to. FWIW, since we talked I took most (all) of my blogging time and have done more programming (which is what I *really* want to do).
@Joel (reloaded): Also, the blog is “getting it” for the reasons I gave (mostly… about 98%). I’m kind of proud of all the drivvel I’ve written — even when I’ve made an emphatic statement about something that someone quickly (and rightly) said, “Uh, dude… that’s not what that’s about.”