Thanks for the recommendation and the honor of being among your new interests. That’s a great encouragement.

I hope your trimmed down blogging lifestyle works out well for you. :)

Have a blessed Lord’s day,

Emily

I don’t suppose my feelings are overly hurt or anything. You just kicked off a crisis of blog identity I suppose. I am often motivated by my need to excel at whatever I do. So I find myself wondering what I can do to make my blog more “something” that keeps up with Emily and Lu and Kiki as writers who manage to stay on the “not SBC emphasis” blog roll. I suppose it is a female thing because I enjoy all their writing too and wouldn’t suppose myself to be a better writer or more intelligent than any of them by any means. In fact, I just added Emily and Lu on my blogroll too because I thought … hey these ladies really have something to say! Nevertheless, I find myself wondering if I to have something to say … am I just writing into the wind. Oh, I know I have readers who enjoy my writing too. Blog town is big enough for all of us. It just hit me as weird to see my name no longer on the list (and yes I did note others were gone too). Sort of like “oh no, am I the ditz among all these brainy women? Do I need to reinvent my blog once again!?” And so forth. So I don’t plan on deleting you from my blogroll as “payback” or anything so high school as that. I’m really not offended, just wondering what I want out of my blog. Do I want to strive to keep the pastor readership? Or am I okay with having been involved with the SBC discussion for a while, and am now glad to let people go on their way and continue writing about more personal stuff and let those who wish to read it to do so.

So, I’ll probably TP your house the next time I’m in Tulsa or something, but other than that … we’re cool. :)

Dorcas

Don’t get your feelings hurt. It’s not against you. I’m trimming everything.

Besides, you are in really good company. Did you note all the names that got removed from the overly bloated blogroll?

Anyway, I have tried to switch themes, even in my blogroll.

And to everyone I’ve removed- feel free to take me off of your blogroll if you want. It won’t offend me I assure you.

I’m not one to complain you know. I suppose you have “done good” to make this decision to cull your time commitments. But I’ll admit to being a little bummed I’m off your blogroll now. You were one of the major blogs to have me on the list and several people came to my blog from here. Of course I’ll defend your right to make choices and put whomever you wish on your blogroll, but at the same time it is kind of like “hey, I don’t want to be deleted.” You know. Blog town can be a tough gig sometimes.

Dorcas

You done good.

A great book on this principle is The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz. His premise is that we think we want more choices and that more choices will make us happier. Yet the opposite it true.

Thanks for the reminder to be careful where we spend our time–even in the blog world.

Blessings, Ben.

I know I’m on your Firefox 5 feeds you read more than once daily … right? Ha! Seriously, with your busy life I doubt you have time to read my introductory paragraphs, much less an entire epic post. Keep it real, and follow the advice Alan and Bryan are always giving me — when it comes to blogging, just do what you want … it is supposed to be fun, interesting, positive, etc. etc.

Dorcas

Thanks again,

Timmy