blog posts I'd like to read right now:

• someone in the process of getting married. I want to hear about someone going through the motions of planning a wedding. I want to read about another couple who is really frustrated with not living in the same place.
  
• someone within the emerging church who is writing about the struggles of making the ideology of the movement into a physical expression. I want to read about a pastor/leader/teacher/community member who is writing honest about what isn't working for them as they try to live life in an emerging community.
• a group of people writing in a collaborative effort to talk about the "church" life. I want to read different perspectives on the same events.
  
• someone who is writing about struggling with feeling "wrong" because he isn't deconstructing things in the same way his friends are.

I started writing this list while really desiring to read something different. I've found myself reading the same perspectives for a while now. This mostly applies to the authors who I don't know; the people who I do know, generally entertain. After typing this list out I realized that I could be an author of all of those blogs. And I didn't realize it at the time, but I want to read these types of posts because I want to feel like I'm not alone. I want some form of encouragement. I want to read something that will speak to me and the place in life that I'm in now.

I think that one of the reasons that I haven't been writing a lot lately is because I have been in a stagnate place with the things I've been reading. I suppose that it isn't all that strange that the things I read spur me on to write.

So, here's to reading and writing that challenges and provokes.
I'll raise my glass to that.