Should blogs only show the "good"?
This has been an interesting topic around here since I posted my "bad" day picture a few days ago. I have been blogging since 2006 and when I first began it started out as a way for my family and out of state friends to keep up on us. Through 06 and most of 07 it became my journal. Before blogging I never journaled in a book but I have found blogging an easy way to document our daily lives and to share parts of me. I have about 100 online friends and a few real life friends that have blogs. I read about 50 blogs a week. I started to notice that many blogs not only show the "good" days but the not so good days too.
I kept my blog pretty much all good until recently. Monday I had a horrible day. By the end of the day I had to let it out and had a good cry. When I was just about done crying I had a thought . . .why not show on the blog what my day was like . .so I decided to take a picture of my last tear. Well, I posted the picture and admitted that my day did not go so good. Well, over the last few days I have been overwelmed with wonderful emails, messages and phone calls from many of you saying how neat it was that I had the courage to show a bad day.
Being a pastorswife, many people think that our life is always a bowl of cherries. They might think . . they always have it all together because most of the time pastor and their families don't let it be known that sometimes there are difficulties in their day to day life. Many of the responses I got from that post were women who were thankful that I was able to show that a pastorswife doesn't always have it all together. One person had sent me an email thanking me for being "real". She said that since getting to know me as a friend and pastorswife and seeing that I could be real it has given her the courage to reach out to her pastorswife.
Being "real" . . . that is one thing Carlos and I said we would always be when we started out church almost 8 years ago. I always tell people . . .we poop and pee just like everyone else. Yes, we are doing the Lord's work but we are human too.
The other response I got was thanking me for the next days post telling that I came through the bad day and how prayer had a lot to do with it. Thanks ladies for all your kind words and phone calls. It has brought up a lot of interesting discussions and hopefully it will encourage other pastorswives to let your people see you and your families are real and go through things just like others :-)
What do you all think? Do you think blogs should only show the good days or times or do you think it is ok to be open and real about "some" things?
