Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, and Some Cheap Therapy

Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to sort out why I do some of the things I do. Call it a mid-life crisis or whatever you want, but I think all of us struggle through our daily routines and whether they are significant. For the record, I’m not sure if I am at mid-life crisis stage or not – I’m only 34. My age is not the issue. The issue is that I do a lot of things. I enjoy connecting with God through reading the Bible and praying. I attempt to spend much time each week learning, listening, and applying although I could be doing more. Being a husband and father is also a huge priority for me, although sometimes I wonder if I could be doing more in these areas. Ministry is also important to me, which is why I am killing myself working with a large high school ministry at our main campus and serve as the pastor of our church’s second campus.Among all these priorities, I enjoy connecting with others through the likes of facebook, twitter, and the blogosphere. Facebook is mindless enjoyment and allows me to remain privy to the happenings in the lives of others, even though I feel nosy sometimes. Twitter is still an enigma to me, but I stay connected anyway. I know some of you hate twitter as much as Ohio State hates Michigan, Duke hates North Carolina, and the Cleveland Browns hate the Pittsburgh Steelers. I would not die on the twitter hill. Blogging is an outlet for me to write, which I enjoy, but it is also a way to stay influential in the lives of others from day to day. Facebook boasts over 200 million users while twitter has a couple million. The number of blogs may be nebulous, but there are millions. All that to say this. I feel like one voice among many. There are so many voices out there and I think, “Why do people want to listen to mine?” I don’t live an extraordinarily unusual life. I’m not the world’s greatest husband or father, although I might have a coffee mug or t-shirt which states otherwise. I’m not the pastor of a mega-church. My voice doesn’t matter. I don’t have that much to add to the noise, right? Wrong. You see, I have come to the realization that every voice matters. I might not have 10,000 unique visitors to my blog each month or thousands of followers on twitter who hang on my every tweet, but I have a voice. I’m going to use my voice to challenge, encourage, and spread the truth. For me, it needs to be less about how many friends or followers, but whether I am being faithful to my calling.There…that was cheaper than therapy. Thanks for staying with me.