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Are You a Words of Encouragement Blogger?

You reach deep into your soul and write a heart-wrenching entry. You feel so vulnerable, but you hope that it touches someone else out there in the blogosphere. An hour later, you check your blog. No comments. Maybe it was too emotional, too painful. But a few days ago someone wrote a really emotional blog....it brought tears to your eyes! You just had to comment on it, and so did four other people. A few minutes later you check your blog once more. Still no comment. Okay, you're going to have to change your writing style. You write a new entry. This time you’re witty and humorous. That ought to do it! An hour later, you check your blog. Wow! You finally get a comment! Your pulse races in anticipation…you click on the comment…Oh no! You just got tagged! What’s the point? Maybe all this blogging stuff is just a substitute to fill the need you have for words of encouragement. You might as well forget it! Wait, there’s a comment...What? It‘s from one of your kids. “Keep up the good work, mom. We’re proud of you.” Well, maybe there is something to be said for this blogging thing after all!

7:42 AM - Aug. 30, 2005 - post comment

I RELATE!
Yes - I relate to this very much and I didn't want you to have an empty comment field here!!!! I do worry sometimes that I do some of this to have others fill me up emotionally when I need God to do that instead! Only he can give me the self-worth and approval that I sometimes seek from others! Thanks for your honest blog!

Melanie
joymommy - 9:04 PM - Sep. 3, 2005

awhhh.....
Very sweetly stated!!

Blessings! ~Beckie
LittleEblingsAcademy - 6:19 PM - Sep. 12, 2005

You are too funny!
What a great take on the "Five Love Language" Yeah -- I'm all about words of encouragement.....if only my kids knew how to comment on my blog -- well one day...thanks Jill!!! Julie in IL
FreeStuffForHomeschoolers - 9:06 PM - Sep. 28, 2005

YES!
This so speaks to my heart, Jill. Thank you. We give words of encouragement...and yearn for them also....
This is partly why I have no comments function at HolyExperience....I was too weak. :-/ But it is WONDERFUL to leave words of encouragement in other comment boxes ~smile~ It can be a real ministry!
So I encourage YOU, Jill! Blog when you feel led of Him! **You** encourage so many of us!!!!
Thank you!
Ann V. HolyExperience
Anonymous - 3:03 AM - Sep. 29, 2005

Thank You...
for putting my thoughts into words! I absolutely love your blog, and the way you write. So open, so honest, so sincere. Bless you this day for what you've given me! I look forward to visiting more and more often. Oh yeah....I'm tagging you, too! LOL I want those who visit my blog to be aware of yours, so that they might receive the same encouragement and blessing I have.

Hugs to you,
Cynthia Robin
cynthiarobin - 6:27 AM - Sep. 29, 2005

Hi Jill
I'm not sure why you found me to email to introduce your site, but I took the bait and checked it out. I'm a curious type. Actually, I was thinking about this very thing the other day. Wondering if blogging was really a good thing, or just a way to try to get our (generally) egos stroked from strangers since we don't have real relationships doing the job. An attempt to fulfill some "felt need" psychologically outside of God.

We all want to be liked, and we like to hear that SOMEONE agrees with us, or that we've helped someone. But we cannot write for the comments. We must write because we have a burning message, that like Paul, we can't help but preach, whether anyone receives it or not. We just better take care to be faithful to the message Giver. Our message can be an encouragement, a testimony, a teaching, ... We hope it touches someone, because communication's purpose is to touch and change lives. But our focus needs to be TO THAT - outward, ministry to the hearer, not inward getting my ego stroked.
At Jesus' feet,
Lisa
http://me-and-my-house.org
meandmyhouse - 6:49 AM - Sep. 29, 2005

That's so me!
I always look at the comments as a measure of...acceptance. I can blog without them, but I'm let down when no one comments about something I just poured my heart out about. Wow..that was deep. I didn't even think I was words of encouragement...
schooldaze - 11:41 AM - Sep. 29, 2005

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I used to concern myself with the number of hits/reviews I received on other sites; however, now I understand I'm not trying to compete in a popularity contest for the praises of people I don't know...

We should all write meaningfully from the heart. When another recieves more hits, maybe it's the simple result of polite backscratching between internet friends who don't know one another. If I needed that, I'd use a broom handle and scratch myself.

Thanks for your words.
JoelKing - 2:22 PM - Nov. 16, 2005

I hear ya.
How funny. I do understand though. But since I have the sitemeter, even if someone doesn't comment I know they read it and how long they were on my blog.

I always comment when I feel like I've been spoken to by he Lord or if I feel a connection to the article. I rarely NOT reply.
Sisterlisa - 3:59 PM - Dec. 14, 2007

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That was awesome! In the blogging world I guess I do look for those words of encouragement, but my love language in the natural world is Acts of Service
Queenbrownshuga - 11:29 AM - Feb. 6, 2008

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Jill Novak shares from her heart and the pages of her journal about God's faithfulness through life's everyday teachable moments.Jill encourages families to write and draw from life. She and her husband Robert have been married 28 years and are the parents of five children. Together her family has founded Remembrance Press, publishers of The Pebbly Brook Farm Series: Character Building Stories for Boys and Girls, Becoming God’s Naturalist, The Gift of Family Writing, and The Girlhood Home Companion.

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