I know how to solve the spam issue and I’m sure a few of us together can solve the money issue, leaving you to get some rest from the third issue and then whenever you feel like blogging again… hours, days, years later (cos I know you still love it), the blog - and we - will be there waiting with open arms for you to return.
You are a true friend to me and it’d be wrong if this site just disappeared with all the posts, the comments and the memories. Let us work with you as a body and give you the rest and encouragement you need eh?
Blog on!
With love from Rachel.
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Amen to that. I haven’t taken a significant hiatus in 3.5 years of blogging, but many good bloggers have. Take some time off and let the bruises heal. We’ll be here when you get back.
If you’d like to some extra guest bloggers while you’re taking a sabatical, let me know.
Yes, please keep the site here in case Bene ever decides to “blog on”. I’m sure we can solve the technical and hosting issues.
Dear Bene,
Echos of your “Last Post” reverberate in the comments of your readers - we long to carry you. Perhaps this will be an opportunity for us to embody the arms of God. Or, perhaps this time, we must content ourselves with the knowledge that some moments are reserved soley for the Divine.
Many saints (you among them) move between isolation and declaration - their journey seldom understood. To those around them, to those who love them, the observance of isolation and silence are difficult to bear.
Bene, only my confidence in an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God brings me comfort as silence takes your place. You can be assured that many open arms will greet you on the other side.
Much love and prayer go with you.
Well said, Rachel, well said.
BD, we lift you up in prayer and fellowship. I, for one, will pray without ceasing for your return, not out of selfishness, I know, but for knowing that the Christian blogging world becomes a better one with your presence.
God superduperultramegabless you!
Hey BD, will miss you. You know I’ve learned alot from you.
- Peace
Dave
Well Bene,
I feel like I have a huge advantage over a lot of people that read your blog. We have broken bread. And as much as your heart and passions (and personality) come out in what you write, I don’t think there is any substitute for the personal encounter. What I have read on this blog since then, has been filtered by that encounter (and our msn conversations
) Even before we met up I found your compassion during a significant low point in my life… and the subsequent high point. I have appreciated our friendship over the last couple of years so much, and wish you all the best God has for you.
It is obvious you have struck a chord (good and bad) with a lot of people. To me that means you have been successful in standing for something. This may be the end of the blog, but it is the beginning of something else. I am looking forward to that.
Enjoy the new journey.
As I think back over the past month and the downhill slide I’ve taken in my posts and tone, I’m recognizing not just others culpability in events - but my own.
And I’m finding this overwhelming.
I need your help, the help that I most need is prayer, your prayer that I will be lifted into God’s presence, that He will make me whole and complete again.
This isn’t whining, this isn’t trying to hide, or excuse my behaviour, this is simply asking for the help of you, my sisters and brothers in Christ.
Oh Bene…I’m praying. I wish there was more I could do.
Bene you are in my prayers of petition and thankgsgiving.
- Peace
Dave
Oh, I sincerely hope that you’ll return.
Feith
I’m praying for you, BD. Peace.
You take care, come back if you feel you can. I think you have touched so many people with your site and you will be missed.
With love from across the water,
L.
I have great respect for BeneD’s contributions to discussing sensitive and mine-plagued areas of human belief and conviction in a way that promotes the general good and understanding. I had no idea you were taking the blog down–it will be missed. I mostly have read you from the un-Right Blogs aggregator but you have often made me smile, think, act, nod and occasionally even pray. (Note: Richard Hall of Connexions is one of the only other people to do all of those things for me with his blog.)
I sometimes feel in a way similar to what you describe–that if people only knew me from my blog that they would think that I am far more strident than I really am. Perhaps this is what you are referring to BD? But blogs are in part about what’s in our gut–that first impulse that people often suppress later on in the analysis. Blogs let us see inside each others guts: so of course it’s not always a pleasant view! But it is a useful one. And your blog sometimes soared above the gut to the heights of, well, blog-literature!
Having blogged for far less time than BD, it seems to me that BD is entitled to rest and reflection and to take stock and even just take–instead of constantly giving.
God bless,
FP
We are praying for you and I hope you find the strength that you need and that you feel God’s presence close to you.
Pax,
Jordon