How you categorize something matters.
It speaks to the importance you place on it and the function it serves.
My smart phone has the ability to create folders for my home pages and various apps go in them.
I have one for tools (flashlight, calculator, etc.).
There is one labeled fun (Netflix, Pandora, and whatever game I have loaded – currently 2048).
A folder called work contains my Bible app, pages manager, and the link to our CMS software.
Social media apps like Facebook, twitter and Snapchat are included in social.
And then there is my self care folder. It contains fitness and running apps, a link to our insurance app, and WordPress.
For a long time, I couldn’t figure out where to put my blogging app. For a while, it was with the social apps. Relationships, community, conversation are all part of the reason I blog. It could fit with work, because I usually blog about things related to ministry.
But I realized that primarily, I blog for me. I blog to think. I blog to let go of things. I blog to discern. It is a spiritual practice, as every bit as important to my self care as what I eat, or how much sleep I get.
Why do you blog or write? How would you label your practice?
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