What to include

My first post, and a immediate post-publication question: what should a post be? Does it have to follow a structure or be perfect? Can I engage with my posts sufficiently to keep the project alive? Some thoughts: 

What I want is three or four times a week to post some thoughts concerning

1. God in love: the framework (theory)
2. My encounters (experience)
3. Living the presence/adventure/lastingness way of life (practice)

If only theory, boring; if only experience, pointless; if only practice, inexplicable

What I want is a post format that regularly involves at least two of the three:1 & 2 or 3 & 2. Each blog post should reference some specific encounter, or else the whole exercise will become vaporous.

What about extras? Random remarks and observations that don't fit into any of these categories? Why not just add them as they arise?

Yet there's a formal structure to the reflecting and risking... Perhaps the blog should not just be what I imagine reflecting and risking to be if practiced by an individual or a group: a prayer punctuated by reflecting on encounters and commitments to risking new ones. Maybe the blog needs to be broader and less focused. It's key that the blog be interesting and informative both to readers and to me.

For instance, in dealing with encounters, what I don't want is a relentless (and humorless) working through a checklist of items: a general report of the encounter as it happened, who the Other is, what the alescences were, what the the history of richness was, to be followed by a quick roll of this die, and risking.

I need to hit all these items—theory, experience, practice--regularly not just to make the blog interesting and intelligible to others but to keep myself engaged. I so easily lose sight of the big picture, forget that experiences exemplify the cosmic activity of God-in love, that God-in-love is expressed in practices, that practices lead to experiences, and so on round and round. When I think about particular encounters, it's hard to remember the cosmos and my life at the same time.

This suggests that any post should be like a few bars of a piece of music played by a couple of instruments, but that over time, post by post, the whole score will out. I shouldn't be afraid to deal with abstractions nor with specificities; each post should have something of both; no post can have all of anything.  

Let's see if I can make this work.