Delurking

OK, starting today and going thru to Sunday the 26th, we Revgalblogpals are making the effort to stop the practice of lurking. When people read through your blog without commenting or otherwise acknowledging they have visited, that is called lurking.

Some lurking is kind of systemic --for instance, I believe my blog is not set up to allow anonymous contacts so, if someone does not have a blog ID of some kind, I don't think they can post a comment to anything I've written. However, I am still in something of a techno-fog around blogging so I could be wrong about that.

But it's nice to know when someone has read your post, and ppb's idea of leaving a blogstone, (o), lets the author know you were there. Or, as someone else suggested, just a "thank you" comment added.

We do indeed have a huge online community here --and there is an abundance of caring and support within it, praise God!

Just knowing that there are lots of people out there who struggle with some of the same things professionally that I do is tremedously helpful. And I am especially grateful for the blogs of our lay ministers, pastor's spouses and students, for the different and much needed perspective they provide.

So I am thinking of the song we sang at both churches yesterday:

I am the church. You are the church. We are the church together.
All who follow Jesus, all around the world, yes, we’re the church together.

The church is not a building, the church is not a steeple,
The church is not a resting place, the church is a people.

We’re many kinds of people with many kinds of faces,
All colors and all ages too, from all times and places.

And when the people gather, there’s singing and there’s praying,There’s laughing and there’s crying sometimes, all of it saying: