Starting Over

There's something about beginnings. We spend most of our lives in the middle of things, so even the semblance of a new beginning is always refreshing. I've been blogging now for a few years, but now for the third time I'm beginning again, and for no other reason than I am able. I don't hanker after lots of readers, don't operate under the illusion that the sort of content that I'm likely to provide has that kind of potential.

No, I hate to say it, but it's all about me. It's my whiteboard, my blank slate, my scribble-pad. My first blog was Mr. Standfast, which was followed by gratitude & hoopla. Both of these blogs were essentially places of Christian encouragement to start with, although they drifted into many other things. I posted nearly every day for several years with something like missionary zeal at times, but changes in my work-schedule have made keeping up with that kind of pace extremely problematic. And that's probably a good thing, since I was kind of scraping the barrel-bottom at times, looking for a reason to post.

So why another blog? Well, I still want that scribble-pad. I expect to post here only two or three times per week, and I expect the posts to be fairly short and often of a personal nature. The content is wide open, perhaps not always as purely "Christian" as in the past, but I am no less a follower of the Way now as then. So my blogroll as it develops will likely be weighted heavily in that direction. But I'm going to let it develop naturally, according to what happens to be capturing my attention at the moment.

Why "In the Clearing"? Good question. It seemed to work, and strike a note of clarity and hopefulness, and most importantly perhaps it was "available." So there it is. A start.