to blog or not to blog...

I've always been ok with blogging. I've never had huge issues with people who express themselves through blogging. I've probably talked behind a few of their backs, but never to their face...and only beat up a handful of them. (and it was in a huge gang fight in which I didn't find out they were bloggers until it was over). Who am I to say blogging makes you weird? I must admit however, that I've always thought of bloggers as being the super-intraverted type that used blogging as a creative outlet to get the craziness going on in their head out in the open, and perhaps infect the rest of the world...the normal people like me...with their ridiculous ideas and thoughts. I've also thought in the past that you had to know 'the language' of blogging to be a blogger. Not that I looked at many blogs, but I remember reading a few blogs (maybe 6 years ago?), and I thought they were simply lame attempts at trying to seem deep, intellectual, mystical, and wierd. Looking back on it, thats still what I think...however, I am beginning to be open to the idea that maybe...just maybe, I am just NOT deep, intellectual, mystical, or wierd enough to understand these things, so maybe I should consider joining them instead of judging them.
Add to this new open-thinking the fact that Matt Chandler recently started a blog (dwelldeep.com) and so it suddenly fits well into my life philosophy to 'be like matt'. I consider us basically the same person, just in different skin...kidding!...(by the way are you supposed to put things like 'kidding' or 'jk' or whatever in blogs or do you just let it ride and risk people taking you seriously??? I hesitated to put 'kidding' b/c bloggers should have this mutual understanding of sarcasm, but then again I would hate for someone to really think i meant that...i'm still learning so bear with me until i get this 'blogging weirdo' thing down.) Another reason to consider blogging is b/c my wife has a blog and she does not fit any of my stereotypes for bloggers. (by the way her blog is jennifercolley.blogspot.com) This is a much better place to go if you are a blog stalker and just want the scoop on me and my life...i.e. is my wife hot, what I look like, is my baby cute, is my baby born yet, all that creeper stuff. You probably won't get much useful stalker scoop at all on here.
wow, it feels good to get rid of the creepers we just lost by that last statement - now its just us real blog people and we can get down to business.
The real reason I wanted to start a blog is b/c every now and then I get these thoughts that I think might be worth writing down, or I read or hear something that I think deserves repeating, and this could be an easy outlet for that to happen. So my plan here is not to try to seem deeper than I am, more intellectual than I am, more spiritual than I am, more political than I am, or more wierd than I am...if you sense that, please tell me so I can talk bad about you.
As for the title (life.road), in Mt 7:14 Jesus says that there is a road that leads to life - its hard, narrow, and most won't venture down it...but it leads to life. I want to be on that road - I am actively seeking how to be (and stay) on that road. I'll share my thoughts and journeys down this road as much as possible, and try to be honest enough to let you know when I've taken the different road and found the hard way that it led to destruction.
so thanks for reading - I'll try not to waste your time.
coby (do you sign your name to posts or is that not cool since it should be obvious that I wrote it?)