Blogging: Mixed Motivations

The great scholar S. E. Ramquist wrote, "Is not blogging an inherently narcisstic activity? Perhaps the occasional visitor, perhaps the bored, wandering internet addict getting his or her fix, but no one else--save the author--really reads the work. Blogs are mini-speeches that are rehearsed only to oneself, but often with the pretension of speaking to a crowd."

I would be deluded to deny that an element of narcissism motivates me to blog. Thus, I could not agree more with Ramquist. And yet, there is a duality to my motivation, the other element being a sincere desire to speak truth and to be a vessel for the expansion of the Gospel. If my blogs might be read, even just by one "occasional visitor, perhaps the bored, wandering internet addict," it allows the possibility for a seed of truth to be planted within his heart. Perhaps the seed will later be watered by another, and slowly, but surely, as it is pruned and nurtured, be grafted into the Tree of Life, where it might bear much fruit.

For further thoughts by S. E. Ramquist, see http://shearamquist.blogspot.com/