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Transform Thyself - Transform Thy Blog

December 5, 2007

I met with the Minister of Spiritual Formation today. 

“No, he’s not the Dalai Lama.”

Actually, he’s just a regular guy; a Christian staffer with a heart
for ministering to people from a spiritually-sensitive
point-of-view, one might say (he has education & small group
ministry responsibilities, just to name a couple).

For me, the conversation reached a climax when he began
to discuss that learning the Scriptures is more than
memorization.  It is about transformation.

THAT got my juices flowing; THAT got me thinking:

“TRANSFORMATION.”

What an exciting word……transformation. 

Everything around us is so temporary: 
we have disposable watches;
we have disposable diapers;
we have disposable tissues
(just kidding…..seeing if you’re paying attention).

The point: do we have the patience for anything that can
transform us……or our blog?

We are such a Now-society.  It is challenging for us to wait
in a line of 3 to pay for our groceries.  How many of us, realizing
we have more than 20 items, put goods back on the shelf so
we can checkout through the express lane?

Good grief!  What is happening to us?  What are we in a rush to do?

And then, when we arrive to the ‘place’ where we are going, we
are too exhausted to do what we intended to do in the first place.

“Beam me up, Scotty!”

How can transformation occur when you are too busy or too exhausted? 

Maybe, you are not writing an inspiring blog post because you are
exhausted from reacting to your world. 

Can you communicate effectively enough to ‘turn someone on’?

What can you communicate that will inspire the world?

The minister asked me how Blogging For Riches is doing.  I told
him it is doing well; we are making sales.  He followed with,
“I have 2 blogs.  I last wrote on one of them over a year ago.”

Then, he said what many of you are thinking, “I don’t have
anything to say.  And if I did, who’s going to read it anyway.”

Ah……….gotcha!

I told him that people love hot gossip, or human interest stories.
People always like to feel better about their situations by reveling
in the plight of others (sad, but true). 
And, I said, “You’re an expert at what you do.  Not everyone knows
what you know.  Mixed-in with a talent to articulate a good story,
you will have more and more readers reading your blog.”

Since the Internet charged into our lives in the mid-90’s, you’ve
had an ever-expanding megaphone at your fingertips:
a little knowledge, some honed-in skill, and a spoonful of talent,
and you’ve got yourself quite a stump!

So, find the courage to find your voice.

“Be transformed.

Then, blog about it.

Watch it transform others.”

JerryWFranklin

PS: The minister and I have had coffee a time or two recently. 
In parting ways today, he said, “I like getting together with you;
it energizes me.” 

PPS: It is rare when any of us get the benefit of such feedback.

PPPS: If you could hear your friend’s thought about spending time
with you, what would s/he say? 

Leave a comment, please.

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2 Responses to “Transform Thyself - Transform Thy Blog”

  1. Tim Wright on December 14th, 2007 10:48 pm

    Jerry,

    I just read your post while poking around your site, which I found after joining your “Blogging for Riches” program.

    First of all, thank you for taking the time to write this kind of post and put on your site. It is obvious that you took some time, thought and effort into putting it together and it shows.

    While I’m not typically moved by things I read on the internet (especially on the topic of internet marketing), I have to admit that I was genuinely moved by what you had to say.

    I’m not sure if it was because of the spiritual element that you incorporated or because I could tell that it was something that came from your heart, but the idea of “transformation” reached out and captured my imagination.

    I can identify with the newbie who feels like she “has nothing to say” and often get overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of what’s out there on the web. What value could I possibly contribute among the clamoring cacophony of competing voices screaming for attention?

    One of the miracles of this technology is allowing “strangers” to connect and, in that connection, to be transformed by sharing and exchanging ideas with another soul.

    I don’t mean to “wax poetic,” but I wanted to tell you that your voice was heard in spite of the magnitude of clamoring voices competing out here on the web.

    Thank you and God Bless you.

    Keep up the fine work.

    Tim “the total health guy”
    http://www.totalhealthwork.com

  2. JerryWFranklin on December 17th, 2007 3:46 pm

    Thank you, Tim, for your kind words.

    Thank you for purchasing Blogging For Riches! And, thank you for ‘waxing’……..from one ‘waxer’ to another…….heehee.

    Seriously, building healthy, successful electronic relationships has it’s challenges.

    Without emoticons and acronyms, sarcasm and ‘kidding around’ would be friendship-killers! But, with a little skill, we all seem to manage. ;-)

    What must I do to get an autographed copy of "Changing Your Emotions, Changing Your Life"?

    Blessings to you & yours,

    Jerry

    PS: "Merry Christmas!"

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