Blend

This blog, Open Catholic, feeds to a website that hosts separate blogs focused on Prayer, Social Justice, and Word Open (a creative project). Besides these four-mentioned, I have a poetry blog I have run since 2008, called Concrete Formalist Poetry. 2008. That's sounding a bit way-back!

I have these blogs, through which I make the points I want to make. I tend not to argue. Rather, my blogs serve to testify, or witness. I mean, that's how I see them. I want my blogs to be "positive" not in the Hooray for me sense, but as statements. Clear statements. Not rejoinders.

Well, I hope I live up to the model I have set by my blogs. I hope I am positive (not merely a cheerleader. Not that I object to cheerleaders.) in my life, by living my life as a statement of life in the light of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

A lot has been written, sung, argued, pleaded, shouted, and murmured in the same vein. My point is, I do not much elaborate on my belief. I don't see that it requires explanation. Oh, I preach. It may not look like a lot like preaching, but you can bet I preach, whether in word (either by what I say or choose not to say) or gesture, it is always on my mind to fulfill the edicts of the Lord.

Want to know what I believe? Read the Creed, I might say. It's all there. Or, to say, I follow the commandments of the Lord. To love God with all my heart and my neighbor - that means, anyone - as I love myself.

But, to titles. This blog entitled, Blend. I sometimes title blogs after I write them, once it is clear to me what the title should be, for whatever reason makes sense for that blog, but in this case, as in a few others, I titled first, as a way of setting before myself a theme to write toward.

My life in Jesus Christ suggests a blend of statement, and purpose. That everything I do in all my blogs, as outlined above, are really a blend of statements that serve one purpose. And, more. That my writing, my work, my life with my family - all that too blends. Blends, to what?

Read the Creed. Ha. Got ya.

Love you, too. Thanks for reading.