Planning a Move

It's looking like a change that I have been planning for months is going to take place soon. It's taken longer than I expected to get around to this, but we have finally registered my name as a domain and will be spending the week after Christmas building my new site and setting it up on the servers. Hopefully it will all come off without too many problems.

It will be located at myname.com, but I don't have a name for the site yet. I have a couple ideas that I'm considering, and I will be asking your thoughts on the new name a little later on. Sometime (hopefully shortly) after the first of the year, I will be moving my blogging life to the new site. At this point the plan is to discontinue blogging here, but leave DF up on Blogger as an archive. The new site probably won't seem that different as a whole, but I don't plan to import the existing DF posts into it. Of course I will let you guys know where to find the new site when it's up and hope to find you there.

This is a result of both a change over the last few months in the direction I feel I am going spiritually, and a choice to "come out" so to speak; meaning I am feeling safe enough these days to begin writing under my own name. I have begun to dislike the feeling of something less-than-honest when I interact with people under a pseudonym - not that it's dishonest in and of itself, but I am feeling dishonest about it - meaning I feel the signal of a change in me about that. I also want to establish my name in order to become more valid and authentic as both an author and as a person.

I'm not suggesting that my new blog will be that much different than DF, I am not saying I have some new and great revelation or mission to share. I think more than anything I am wanting to signify the shedding of my bitterness and the new mounting forgiveness and compassion in me towards those who have hurt me and the church as a whole. Not that I'm perfect and not that I won't have my angry moments, but they are becoming fewer and in some ways I think the tone I have established on much of this blog has been one of hostility and I am wanting to evolve out of that. I think it's more psychological than anything for me, I started this blog as a place to vent my anger and frustration about my experiences in the church, and that's not where I am anymore.

So anyhow...I guess this post is just a heads-up on.