Deliberations

Joel and I have been talking about establishing a blog for a long time now. There might be a variety of reasons we have wanted to do so. Perhaps it is a blazing fascination with ourselves. Or maybe it is because we enjoy discussing various subjects so much and thought others would be fascinated with our exchanges and want to join it. Maybe it is just plain old wanting to jump on the bandwagon of blogation that has swept the world. I don't know exactly. But I do know that we deliberated for many weeks over the name of our blog. "Out Here Hope Remains" was a name we came back to time and again. I believe it came from a Caedmon's Call lyric. I think at one point we were ready to settle on "Jumbo Inflate Monkey" but it was one of those inside jokes that we would have to explain - and we all know how funny those are. We deliberated over two or three dozen possibilities. And what for?   It's so much easier to deliberate over the name of a blog than it is to create one and actually post something on it. Until we decide, it's still just an open idea floating around in the air, right? I wonder how many of us are deliberating about our life in the Kingdom ... after all ... as long as we are undecided we can't be expected to do much. Let's break out of deliberations and break into deliverance.