Pride and Blogs

[Lady_Cygnus]

I have a dilemma with blogs and how they relate to pride and I’m looking for some suggestions…

I started saying the Litany of Humility about a month ago. The weird thing about that prayer is that as soon as you say it you start seeing the prideful moments very clearly. Now I’ve been keeping a blog for over a year and just started posting a lot more to it. The other day I realized that I was eagerly looking over the blog to see if anyone had posted any comments. I realized it was pride, I wanted people to be reading my blog and telling me how great it was

So then I removed the comments, ok now I’ll never know if someone reads it! Then I thought, well now I’m just posting things - assuming they are right - and giving no one a chance to correct me! Pride!

So then I thought - I should just stop posting totally! But then I kept thinking about all the wonderful words of wisdom on healing I was getting and I wanted someone else to benefit from it. Besides, it would keep with the 12th step “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others”

Now I’m thinking that maybe I’m posting this thread to get people to look at it. Please don’t tell me if you did!

Perhaps I should just take this to my spiritual director and get his opinion on the whole matter, but I was wondering if there were some wise people out there who might give a suggestion

 

[baltobetsy]

Perhaps I should just take this to my spiritual director and get his opinion on the whole matter.

Yup, that’s what you should do. He knows you better than any of us and has grace of state as well.

Betsy

 

[Lady_Cygnus]

Yup, that’s what you should do. He knows you better than any of us and has grace of state as well.

Betsy

Yea - you’re right.

 

[StCsDavid]

I have a dilemma with blogs and how they relate to pride and I’m looking for some suggestions…

I started saying the Litany of Humility about a month ago. The weird thing about that prayer is that as soon as you say it you start seeing the prideful moments very clearly. Now I’ve been keeping a blog for over a year and just started posting a lot more to it. The other day I realized that I was eagerly looking over the blog to see if anyone had posted any comments. I realized it was pride, I wanted people to be reading my blog and telling me how great it was

So then I removed the comments, ok now I’ll never know if someone reads it! Then I thought, well now I’m just posting things - assuming they are right - and giving no one a chance to correct me! Pride!

So then I thought - I should just stop posting totally! But then I kept thinking about all the wonderful words of wisdom on healing I was getting and I wanted someone else to benefit from it. Besides, it would keep with the 12th step “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others”

Now I’m thinking that maybe I’m posting this thread to get people to look at it. Please don’t tell me if you did!

Perhaps I should just take this to my spiritual director and get his opinion on the whole matter, but I was wondering if there were some wise people out there who might give a suggestion

As a fellow blogger who shamelessly advertises his blog within the signature of his posts, here, I can tell you I have great empathy. Yes, there can be a lot of pride involved; however, writing is one of the things the Lord has blessed me to do reasonably well. I try to write for His glory, but I do catch myself looking too much at the site meter that tells me how many people read my work. Most of my writing in my blog I try to keep in third person to not bring attention to myself, and I try to ask a lot of questions for people to ponder. If it is in your heart to write, keep on writing. Just remember that God is the final editor of our works.

 

[MidnightSun02]

I like to read comments…not just to see if people liked what I had written but mainly because there are people who don’t agree with what I have to say…so it is interesting to read what they think. And then it is fun to give my point a view back. Sometimes they never respond so maybe there is a slight chance I made them think.