There are some ideas I can’t put on this site. Not because they’re bad necessarily, but because they don’t fit the formula. This is a list of “stuff Christians like” and I want to respect that. I try to do my best to keep that true.
So when folks email me cool questions about writing or building a blog, I have to decide where to put those answers.
97secondswithGod.com is marching through Genesis right now so a post about how to write wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense there.
Prodigaljon.com is rising from a brief hiatus like Rocky, running sprints in knee deep snow with a log on its back and yelling at the top of long flights of stairs.
CanIwearjeans.com is going to get a facelift down the road and hopefully help loads of people find a church they’ll dig.
So, I’m stuck.
That’s why I created everythingisreplaceable.com. The name is a reference to my belief that all my stuff and all my possessions are not as important as they try to tell me they are. That I need to simplify my life and clear more space for the things that matter. More on that later.
But why another site? I guess I want to be faithful to sharing ideas as long as I have them. A few years ago I developed something called the “eventual/imminent reminder.” After struggling with my own mortality through a weird situation, I really felt like God asked me, “Why should it take imminent death to inspire you to do what you were made to do when all along you’ve been promised eventual death?”
So today, I’m trying something new. I’m going to write about writing and ideas and stuff that makes no sense on SCL, 97SWG or ProdigalJon. (Not that I have all the answers on how to write or grow something or change the way you do things.)
Check out, “Eddie Vedder, the Nappy Roots and Ideas.”
p.s. Some folks understandably thought I’d answer the title of the post in this post. That is part of what the new site is about. But in the meantime, I will tell you that I get up at 5AM and write/read before work starts. It’s the only way I can focus on personal writing and my work writing.
