I know I am not the first World Racer to struggle with this topic. There is a certain kind of paralysis that strikes me each time I sit down to blog. Silence is not frequently a problem for me and I am rarely accused of being too quiet. But in this case, I see things, I hear things, and I feel things about which I want to write. And yet, the moment I sit down to blog, my fingers freeze. They hang suspended over the keyboard while my mind churns with all the things I could say. Then the doubt creeps in. That fear that someone isn’t going to like what I write. That they won’t like my ‘style,’ such that it is. Or that the content is going to offend someone whose beliefs don’t perfectly mirror mine.
The thing is, I am letting my fear of other people get in the way. I am letting those nagging fears and doubts take over. I can’t do that. I have to have faith that what I blog will have purpose. That an image I post here will affect someone deeply. Or that just one paragraph in one blog might be the push that someone needs to send them flying over the brink of exploration and into salvation.
So, I must blog. And I must do it now, so that when I am out on the Race, this mental paralysis will be nothing more than a memory. I will do this now, so I will have no fear and that all I write and all I do will ultimately be for the Glory of God.
