Dispense with the furry shed?

So much has happened in my life since I last posted a blog here that perhaps I will dispense with http://thefurryshed.blogger.com altogether.

The problem is, I kind of like having a blog that is all to my own.  Plus, I think the name is ingenious, if I do say so myself.

I like it because although there is no shed in my life, unless you count the place where I dwell, it is very punny.  I shed.  My two cats shed.  I do finally live in a standalone building, unlike my previous dwelling, which was an apartment, and it is a one-story, shed-shape.  But it is not a shed, it is a house.

I believe for the first time in my adult life, due to the expanse of wood flooring throughout the house, except for the bedrooms, I am realizing just how furry things are: between me with my long hair and two cats.  I do not just have tumbleweeds outside the shed.  I also indoor tumbleweeds that collect along the floorboards and  coast about the floor as we three shed denizens migrate around the house.  I require quite the dustbuster.

Another reason for dispensing with this blog site is because I question whether, due to the infrequency of having this blog, I am unable to maintain the second blog I more recently created.  I have a new blog that is centered on my place of employment, http://thechurchwiththeholyspiritwindow.blogger.com.  It is not just a job now for me - it is, in the words of the US Army, "an adventure."  I am the new pastor of a lovely little bunch of people in eastern New Mexico.   You can go there and see what we have to say for ourselves.

Not only does having two blogs sound overwhelming for me with all of my new responsibilities to the church, there could be an ethical dilemma about having two separate blogs.  Yes, this one might feel like it is all just for me, but is it right for me to have two absolutely separate places that could allow me to germinate two separate processes of thought, two separate identities?  I do not wish for that to happen.  While perhaps other types of disciplines this philosophy might seem appropriate, I am not so sure I should have two different identities given the importance of integrating my true self with my work as a pastor.  The problem with parallel lives is that they never touch.  Being a pastor, I believe, is about being one life caring for other lives.  Effectively and with integrity.

I do not plan to get rid of this blog site anytime soon.  But perhaps later on down the road.  I hope that the new blog becomes a place where the Good News can be preached to the ends of the earth.  There is so much power and potential power in digital media, I am convinced.  It may even create an interest from the local people in Tucumcari, NM, enough that they might find something that they can chew on, and discover something that they may be able to find by entering our sanctuary to worship with us.