Another Hard Lesson

It's easy to get disheartened with this blog business. I hear others talk about their blog as if it's the greatest thing in the world, and I have absolutely no desire to check it out. Therefore, I can perceive my three blogs in the same light - something I am very proud of that I want everyone in the world to read, while everyone in the world is blithely ignoring them due to total lack of interest.

Then, suddenly, I go to the sites and see comments, and the comments tell me that someone out there IS reading them and even getting some sort of enjoyment and/or enlightenment from them. Who knew? And tonight I even got a personal email from a friend. I didn't even know that she had ever heard of Cat Juggler, yet there she was, telling me how reading it had changed her perspective on an issue we are both struggling with.

Years ago in Orlando, I wrote and delivered over a dozen sermons about issues I was struggling with. After the services were over I would stand at the door as people filed out, receiving hugs and handshakes and hearing people telling me what little piece of my message had touched them. Now, as the minister's husband, I am not in a position to do that. My outlet for that part of my psyche is Confessions of a Cat Juggler. No hugs. No handshakes. Only very rarely a comment or even any indication that anyone is reading it.

Evidently, there are quite a few stealth readers out there. I guess this means I'll have to keep writing the damned thing!