Is there a reason to blog?

After disappearing from the blogging scene, if there ever was one, for a good 27 months, I am back. Not by personal interest, nor out of obligation, but by Someone calling me out of my comfort zone.

Is that weird?
I don't know.

I am, without a doubt, overly reliant on technology, but I still find it hard to fit all the new inventions that it produces ever so frequently into this (maybe out of date) system of mine.
Bottomline?
Blogging, friendstering and facebooking are among my least favourite activities.

Honestly, I find them a waste of time. Not that they are, just that I have greater priorities than that.
Like dipping my feet in the pool after a long day.
Or reducing the semblance of my room from a tornado-hit disaster zone.
Not forgetting my impulse to curl up with a good book every night in the air-conditioned comforts of my room (indeed, I am one blessed person).
Even taking a stroll via the longer way home from the bus stop.
Especially stopping in my tracks for a few moments to take in what God has painted on His canvas high up above - always breath-taking, always inspiring, always reminding me of something greater, something beyond myself and mankind.
Things like that are alot more appealing to me.

Barely has the notion of blogging entered my head before a thousand questions start surfacing, questions like
"Can I get a decent blogskin that not a million other bloggers are using?"
"Will I spend precious time in front of the computer, absorbed in the java world, neglecting the real one?"
"Does it mean late nights again?"
And perhaps, the most crucial of all - "Is anyone even going to read it?"

There is a strange connection between the things we do and our self-worth, things like blogging.
I am, after all, only human. It is natural to look to others for validation, to desire receiving their affirmation and recognition.

But if I am to do this much dreaded thing known as blogging, I must detach my validation from it and bring it to the One in whom I was made, and in whom I will be complete.

Is there a reason to blog?
Oh yes there is.
For a glory that surpasses myself, and for the love of One who gave me my life and a reason to live.