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Jenn wrote an interesting post on blogging. Blogging is an interesting topic. I like her edit at the end of the post:

I suppose that Twitter is where the “community” is happening. While I enjoy reading updates on what people are doing, it often leaves me longing for more explanation (ie: WHY were you eating a burrito at 3am?!). Maybe people don’t blog every day, but it would be nice for the blog to be an extended version of the tweet.

I know some people (John!) are moving away from the whole “extended tweet” style of blogging, but I along with Jenn think it’s a good way to blog. It is, I think, the essence of what blogging is. It’s how I started blogging, many years ago, and it’s how I want to continue blogging.

If you do read this blog then, I’d encourage you to comment. Not because I crave comments, because I will blog whether you leave me feedback or not. But let’s try to get the whole community thing going again. Yes?

I was going to post an entry about how I’m filling in an application form for a teaching job, but I think I’ve written enough for now. So I’ll twitter it instead.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
Ephesians 5:25

I am thinking (and talking) a lot about this verse today. I said in my wedding speech that this was something I was looking forward to learning more about, and my learning has started.

I think the key thing that I and Christian husbands have to grasp and have firmly knocked into our self-centered heads, is that if we are to love our wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, then we are not our own. I now do not have the freedom to live life as I want to live it. I now have a wife. If Christ loved the church by ultimately dying for her, then I have to die for my wife. In other words, I have to put to death all selfish pride, ambition and desires. This is a picture of what Christ did when he died. He loved the church so much that he died for her. The ultimate way we should love our wives is by putting their needs before ours.

And that sounds like common sense. All successful marriages, whether Christian or otherwise, succeed largely because of that. But a massive thing which distinguishes a marriage with Jesus at the centre of it from a marriage without Jesus at the centre of it, is verses 26 and 27 – “that he [the husband] might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.” And more about that on another occasion, perhaps.

Marriage is massive, and I am learning more and more what an awesome privilege and responsibility it is.

That said, I should do the washing up!

I have been left alone in the house since 3pm. It is now 9:20pm and I am still on my own. I have been filling the time by eating pizza, watching TV, listening to Olafur Arnalds, planning an M3 Bible study, and taking photographs of course. And drinking copious amounts of tea. I am English. I drink copious amounts of tea.

There is something about commands like these that just persuade me to do the opposite. I don’t know what it is. Perhaps it’s the “and video cameras” instead of “or video cameras.” Or perhaps it’s just being told that I can’t use my camera. Either way… Get stuffed. In the nicest possible way.

I’m currently trying to get my computer, armed with Linux (Ubuntu), to become one with my iPod. It is not an easy process. It connects, and with certain software can recognise and play the songs on my iPod. But I want to be able to synchronise. It’s not playing. Amarok might be getting close, but has just frozen on me. Banshee is a waste of time. I’m hoping that when the next update of Ubuntu comes out on Thursday that that might help fix this problem, although I doubt it.

Linux is great, but it’s not by any means plug-and-play. Mac all the way, for me… But I would really like to use my iPod with Linux. I’ve found a workable method for processing RAW images, now to be able to sync my music…

Blogging used to be fun, mainly because of the community, I think. I don’t feel like I’m in a blogging community. This is probably because I’m not. And this is probably because I don’t have the time, energy or motivation to belong to one.

But things didn’t used to be like this. We at one point did have a nice little community chugging along nicely, covering a couple of different countries and regions in the UK. But it kind of went a little pear-shaped. I want it back! I miss it!

The solution: Well, the start of the solution would be if James was to start blogging again. I would love that. So much. And I suppose the rest of the solution is simply down to me making more of an effort to take part in that community. And for more people to make more of an effort on other people’s blogs, not just their own. There is no hidden message in that last statement, I am just guessing that that’s what’s going on. I could be wrong.

I think another solution is for people to start new blogs! I don’t mean revamping their old blogs, I mean people to just start blogging. I know of at least two or three people who read this that don’t have their own blog. How fun it would be if they blogged too! Come onnnnnnn. Get a free blog at wordpress.com. There you go.

Bring back the good old blogging days. I miss them.