Bearing Your Soul to Strangers

I was just writing/typing a blog post and then got to thinking... Monthly, sometimes weekly or evenly daily, I write about things that are of value to me. I write about things that weigh heavily on me. I write about things that I feel other people may enjoy reading or be encouraged by. The strange thing is I have no clue who is out there reading all of this stuff! It's like I'm bearing my soul to a bunch of strangers. I am being transparent with people, some of which might not even speak to me if they saw me in public. That is weird! Maybe the only people who read my posts are close friends and family. Maybe only "church people" read my posts. Maybe I have a stalker who clicks on my blog multiple times a day to see if I've posted anything new. I mean I have page views from Russia and Germany. Talk about freaky. The point is, I literally do not know who reads the stuff I put out there. And most of my posts are very personal. I don't feel they are inappropriate or too vulnerable, but I write about some very personal things- like I said, things that are important to me.

I don't know who you are, but I do know people out there are reading my posts. I can see how many page views my blog gets, how many times a certain post is read, etc. But all of the stats are anonymous. I don't see names I only see numbers. This is not to discourage you from reading. I promise, there is no way for me to figure out who you are. It actually makes me feel good that people are at least clicking on the link to my blog when I share a post! Whether or not they read the whole thing, again, there's no way for me to know. Don't get me wrong, I would definitely still [write] even if I had 0 page views. I find it to be very restorative (it's a real word, look it up). For someone who isn't good using words verbally, I love to write. Most times I feel like the words make sense :)

My brain is very scattered right now, so I don't think I could've finished my original post before I got all of that out. Anyways, thank you to the people who take time to read what I take time to write. I hope, somehow, these posts can an encouragement to you.

Now, back to my original post...