Friday, October 13, 2006

Scared Silly—There’s a Reason, I Promise

Potential Wise Saying for the Day: “If something pops in my mind and it’s easy, I write it.” Wanda Jackson

This blog is an extension of something I’ve been doing for over a decade: making myself naked in public…OK not naked naked, but emotionally naked, trying to express thoughts and feeling as Kevin My Video Husband and I work together in a very strange vocation.
To explain: we are part of a very small group of Christians called Media Missionaries, and although it sounds like we go around trying to convert various electronic items (“look how that man is holding his Sony Camcorder…that poor thing needs Jesus!”), it is not. We actually try to use media to reach out to people…

Fortunately for you, I will not be performing any Media Mission work on this blog…because this blog has its own fairly lofty aim: to be a relatively thought-free zone in which true profundity will only sneak in when my back is turned —kind of like what supposedly happened in C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, hopefully. But don’t hold your breath. C.S. Lewis was British thus giving him extra points for cleverness and profundity in writing.

Back to the reason for this blog: One of the things I do as a Media Missionary is to write to the Kind and Generous People Who Help Fund Us. This is achieved using the time-honored Official Correspondence Tool of All Missionaries: Newsletters. However, because of my media bent…(read: twisted sense of purpose and humor) the newsletters generated by yours truly (called the BryanPost because my last name is Bryan, and I’m just that clever) were full of obnoxious quotes and pithy remarks about life, the universe, and everything. In actual fact, The Post was a blog before its time; stranded in the molasses-movement of snail mail; restricted to the two-dimensional existence of print; biding its time until I finally realized its true place.

No comments: