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I haven't been blogging regularly in a long time.
So it feels odd to even be talking about blogging, because I'm not really even a blogger anymore. My Instagram feed has become my "mini-blog" -- it's quick, easy and to the point. Blogging takes much more time, effort, vulnerability.
Today I can not not talk about a certain subject. Hopefully writing it out will help me be a little less frustrated about it... Writing always has a way of doing that.
A few days ago, my sweet friend Casey posted the video trailer to her husband Chris's documentary movie "American Blogger" that will be released in June. We got a preview of it while we were at HopeSpoken, and let me tell you-- all of us were geekily excited about it. In the movie, Chris drives around the United States in the family's Airstream and interviews dozens of bloggers, giving those who don't really understand the blogging process or who are just genuinely interested in blogging a better glimpse into the life of the American Blogger.
Yesterday while I was at home trying to relax after a super busy morning, I got a text from one of my "people." :) She asked if we had seen the Internet ablaze with the "American Blogger" fury. Apparently people were up in arms about the trailer-- everything from frustrations over the lack of diversity featured to annoyance of the voice of the narrator. The bloggers featured were belittled, name-called and mocked. The creator of the film was made fun of and his character questioned.
Now as a friend of this person, who's husband is being attacked like this-- let me tell you that it straight up ticked me off. I don't use my relationship with Casey as something to just throw around. A few years ago, we worked together and talked day in and day out. I told her when I found out I was pregnant, I told her when I knew huge events in my life. I've called her when I need Godly advice. I trust her. I trust Chris. I respect everything they are about.
I've had my own share of blogging frustrations and drama, but I really don't care about that anymore. I've come to the conclusion that the relationships lost through it are people that weren't really friends anyway and were really only out for their own personal goal of getting ahead. Their true colors have shined through. I've let that go.
But today? When we see stuff like this online and it makes our blood boil? And it makes us want to jump at our computer screens and curse blogging and delete our blogs all together? When our friends get hurt and mocked-- we choose love.
We pray for these people that choose hate. We love on these people who hide behind their computer screens saying things they would never say to someone's face. We show kindness to those whose jealousy and insecurities are igniting such a fury among them. We pray, pray, pray and choose to not let it get to us because in the end, blogging does so much more good than harm.
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil."
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
