I was talking with my husband Joe last night about blogs.  Neither of us are very good bloggers.  During the days when we started this blog- towards the end of 2006- life was different.  Back then, we were in the throws of fundraising to start a college ministry at UVM.  The organization that we work with would not release us to be college pastors at UVM until we raised 100% of our budget.  I’ve come to respect and love this policy, and strongly feel that it helps to fully ensure financial stability in your ministry endeavors.

So, what does a person do when they’re full-time fundraising?  You think of all these cool ways to communicate your ministry vision with potential investors- and then you mostly only use the ideas that are cheap, like blogging.  So, we set up a blog account with wordpress.  We also kept up our monthly ministry newsletter.

I’ve been writing monthly ministry newsletters since I first started working in college ministry in 1999.  At that time I don’t think blogs even existed.  I’ve come to see that a main difference between the ministry newsletter and a blog is that the letter is more of a report to investors, while the blog is a public diary.

And here we are now in 2011 and our poor public diary has been sorely neglected.  What can I say?  Life happens.  The public journal has been thrown into the backseat (or out the window.)

But, lately I’ve felt this new wave of inspiration to blog.  Who knows where it will take me?

Last night I told Joe that I had an idea to start a blog about living in the Old North End of Burlington.  He suggested I call it “O.N.E. Life to Live.”  Ha ha ha, I said.  But who knows… Maybe I should just work on persevering here.

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