In which I must be famous now

The Internets are a funny thing. It’s a great tool of connection – after all, I’ve got “friends” in Facebook from high school in Calgary, youth ministry in Texas, message boards I’ve frequented and so on. But it can also be a bit isolating. After all, you read a blog and that person never knows you read it. Or conversely, they read your blog and you never know that they did.
I don’t like lurkers on my own blog much. After all, it’s a little discouraging when you write and toil, get over 150 hits but only three or four comments.
But I have a confession….I, myself, am a terrible lurker.
I read a lot of blogs. Some people watch TV. Other people play video games. I like to read blogs. I subscribe to an embarrassing number of and diverse selection of blogs through Google Reader. My ongoing favourites are the Missional Tribe gang. I have read their blogs for a while now, lurking, rarely commenting. I joined Missional Tribe, even started a blog there and posted a few entries.
But I felt so out of place. After all, I post pictures of my tinies a lot, write the occasional poop story and generally write a blog that is one part Mommy Blog, one part Theology Blog and one part “Who the heck knows?” Blog. So I went back to lurking in anonymity.
So it was a pleasant surprise this morning to find that a big favourite of mine, Brother Maynard, of Subversive Influence fame out in Winnipeg gave me a shout out! (Actually, downright shocking. Me, reading through, suddenly sputtering and shrieking and Brian being all “So a blogger mentioned you, so what?” and me all “YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND, YOU NON-BLOGGER!”)
It’s not quite a celebrity experience but I’ll settle for it.
I hope I don’t let the fame go to my head.
Hi, Brother Maynard! I’m a big fan! Thanks for stopping by!