An update on my experiment so far in the blogosphere

It’s Thursday, July 10, and over two months since I started an experiment in blogging. One main blog with three other blogs that focus on the three elements that make up me and, by extension, make up us all: body, mind and soul. I won’t list them all here but will refer you to the sidebars, or any of the “about me” sections on my blogs. I also have added a fourth blog for subjects that don’t fit as neatly in the paradigm.

The idea was not only to shed light on my own journey, but also on the journey we all take through life as we attempt to become finished people even though we all are unfinished and in need of the grace of God, whatever you conceive Him (and I might add to the distress of some of my readers, Her) to be, as Max Ehrmann once wrote. I hoped to do that through my blogs on running (the body), reading (the mind) and periodical devotions (the soul). So how have I done? By the numbers, this will be my 92nd post for my main blog since February; 100th, my reading blog, since April and my 98th, my devotional blog, since December of last year. (The readership numbers, I’ll leave for another time, but my reading blog is leading by far, with over 1,300 views last month and already closing in on 700 for July, thanks to all the great folks in the book blogosphere.)

So what about my trail running blog? I’d like to say I’ve saved the best number for last, but alas, I haven’t. With the trail running blog (which is a spinoff of my first blog, also about running), I have a mere 31 posts since the end of April when I began my reading blog or nearly three times as little as the reading blog.

What does this say about me?

This is where I left this post earlier as I watched a 1965 Stanley Kramer movie Ship of Fools based on a Katherine Anne Porter book of the same name and now after being properly depressed, but also enlightened that “they” just don’t make films like “they” used to, I return to the post.

If I was going to be negative about it, I’d say it’s showed how much I have failed in living up to my own goals. If I was going to be postive about it, I’d say it’s showed how with the help of others and God’s grace, I have been able to focus on two important parts of myself, in building up my spiritual man and mental man, so to speak. Also hopefully in the process, it has helped you build up your spiritual man and mental man — woman for you politically correct folks out there. However, if I was going to be realistic about it, I’d say it’s showed how I still am an unfinished person in an unfinished universe as the late Dr. George Sheehan wrote years ago, and God’s not finished with me yet.

As Ehrmann wrote:

But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
Be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
No less than the trees and the stars;
You have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.