Why Blog?

So, here I am, johnny-come-lately, jumping on the blogging phenomenon bandwagon only to add another voice in the chorus of our blogging world. With so many people typing so many words filling blog after blog with thoughts and feelings all so brilliantly unique and yet mundane, it all seems to get lost and we end up with a society of men and women just dying to be heard or at the very least to hear themselves speak. So, why join in? Am I so full of myself as to assume that I have anything new or anything worth saying at all? Can I say with any degree of confidence that I know something more than all the other bloggers in the world? Or that this blog will be of any substance at all? We shall see.

The intention of the title of this blog is to designate it as a place where my lost thoughts can go to save from being wasted. Good thoughts are scarce and should be preserved at all costs. This way thoughts that I have can be collected and held until useful. Unlike real lost and found boxes, you are more than welcome to come and pilfer any thoughts you like or need. It is constantly amazing to me the power that simple thoughts can hold. Something so small and insignificant to you can be a life-altering revelation to me, conversely, perhaps, these simple thoughts that I throw into my box can be used to do some good, somewhere, for someone and that is a hopeful thought.

I think that we understand God more through the open sharing of thoughts. I imagine every Christian who has ever lived standing in a large circle looking at God in the middle. God is large and far too much for any of us to take in, but we can each can see a small part. When we speak to the people on either side of us about what they are seeing, it may be totally different, but it paints a better, more complete picture for all of us. If thoughts and ideas were to be shared openly and freely around the circle, who knows what more we could understand.

It is far too easy to get lost among all of the words and thoughts and noise flowing endlessly in and out of our lives. I hope that pain in loss can lead to joy in finding. I hope that finding can always result in new searches. I hope that in a world of much, we can get lost in little thoughts sometimes. I hope that we can remember to feel the joy of being lost in something as well as finding. Most of all I pray that you, whether lost or found, can find something here worth finding.