Tuesday, May 06, 2003

You all come back now!
Having been a less than regular blogger, I'm aware that I have few (a.k.a. no) regular readers. My bad.

Blogging is, I guess, like any relationship. It requires continuous upkeep. However much effort was put in to start or at any stage in the past, the relationship depends on the effort put in now.
And putting in the same effort day after day, week after week is not necessarily enough either. I could publish "Mary had a little lamb" every day, religiously and without fail and it would not attract more readers. In fact less.
You'd be less likely to come back for "I wonder if he's changed" than you would for "I wonder if he's posted anything at all".
Or, if a husband brings home five red roses every day, religiously and without fail, that too will loose it's "specialness" with time. Although maybe initially an act of love and passion, it soon becomes an act of habit and duty. The impact comes when it stops.
"Where are my flowers? He didn't bring me flowers today. Is something wrong with him? Has the relationship died?"
Whatever is wrong with him has been so for a while, and the relationship too may have been dead for a while. You only just noticed.

Happily, not all things are so monotonous. Although GOD, unlike me, puts in the effort to maintain His relationship with us, He is not just doing the same thing every day. As Eugene Peterson translates the book of Lamentations in "The Message",

"GOD's loyal love couldn't have run out, his merciful love couldn't have dried up. They're created new every morning. How great your faithfulness!"

New every morning.
GOD 1 : Mankind 0.
Again.