Redesigns & Revelations

To those searching,

My blog desperately needed to be redesigned

Yes, sadly it was true. My blog needed a drastic makeover, and not just any easy facelift, but it needed to be completely rethought and redone.

Before I go further it would be best to let you into my thought process. For a long time now I knew something was wrong with my blogs, but because I couldn’t pinpoint the exact reasons for my uneasiness, I decided to sweep it back under the rug. However about a month ago, I went to a middle school camp as an intern for my church. The week was focused on the theme of Redesigned. Now being a college student who is majoring in Religion, I thought that this was incredibly simple, incredibly cheesy, and well incredibly stupid. Now being a college student I also thought that everyone had the right to know just how dumb I thought this topic to be. It was sometime during my week of “playful bantering” that I realized…

We as people (myself included being a massive understatement) think that we are more important than we truly are.

Now if this would have been a post months ago I would have taken probably 14 paragraphs to back up my claim, but seeing as my blogs have been reinvented I only ask that you search your hearts  and I believe you will find this to be 100% true. What other reason would I brutally chastise the hard work of others unless that I thought the theme was beneath me or that I could do better? But that’s when reality and revelation sank in. What right do I have to assume that I could do better?

 This realization unlocked my frustrations and uneasiness with my blog and answered why I allowed myself to be carried so far away by apathy. I, thinking that I was more important than I truly was, was too concerned with the number of people reading my blog, too focused on my vocabulary, and too preoccupied thinking that everyone should care enough to read what I had to say. Those who have read my previous writings are far too familiar with my 1,000+ word blogs that overflowed with unnecessary vocabulary and complexity. Instead of saying what I wanted to say in just enough words to say it, I would go on and on like the song “it’s a small world.” In the words of Thoreau, I needed to “simplify simplify”

Because of my week at middle school camp, I knew what I needed to do in order to start blogging again. That meant no more novels, no more unnecessary complexity, no words that you needed a dictionary to understand, and no more fluff. From now on I’m letting my yes be yes and my no be no (Matt 5:37). If according to 2 Cor 5:17 I am a new creation made after the image of Christ, then I at least could recognize that by myself I can do nothing (John 15:5) and that by my own will my blog is nothing but another website.

If you catch or have caught yourself being impressed by something you’ve done, the money you have, or the education you’ve received. Stop and remember…

God’s done more, has more, and is far more than anything we can ever be.

And it is only because He allows us to be redesigned that we can ever shine light

Don’t let us deserve the title “Generation Me.”

Merely,

Chris Gerac

“You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” James 4:14, NIV
"For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself." Galatians 6:3, NASB