Here I go

Since 2008 I have posted eight, that's right (8) blog posts.  That is not enough to be a blogger.  I can't even be called a slogger at that rate.  Four posts the first year, three posts the second year and one post last year.  One post?  What have I been doing?  Well, it is safe to say, not blogging.  Sometime this year more people will begin to read what I write. That will be because I will have begun to say something they are drawn to read and share.  So, when they go back to the beginning, it will be a quick run through the past to now.

Where am I right now, January 2012,  in being "below the line"?  I am in a position of being willing to accept people where they are, creating a "safe place" for them to be exactly who they are right where I encounter them.  It is about becoming more honest with myself that I judge and criticize too much.

If someone is going to be willing to lower the bricks down from the wall they retreat behind for safety then they will do so when I can be trusted with what I find when they come out, or when they let me look over that wall and see them as they are. So, my interest is to be accepted by others as I accept them.  Maybe we can grow in understanding together that way.