Nothing to Say

I work with teenagers, and as a result I try to stay up to date on my social networking. I try to make it a point to update my Twitter, Facebook, and Blog on a regular basis. I try to find funny, enlightening, or inane things to say, in hopes that someone out there on the internet will care, laugh, or learn. But most importantly, the more I participate in these social networking kinds of activities, the more I look like I’m cool to an increasingly technological generation.

And so here I am today, working on a blog post that I will eventually add to my Twitter and Facebook. I feel obligated to do this because it’s Thursday, and I always blog on Thursday.

The only problem is, I don’t have anything to say.

No funny story or meaningful anecdote. No word of wisdom or nugget of personal backstory. All I’ve got is this big, blank piece of paper (well, actually it’s a Word document, but it’s equally blank) and this feeling like if I don’t stay something, anything, I won’t be relevant anymore.

And the funny thing is, I’ve found this same feeling in my real life (not just my cyber one). I’ve been in front of people over the last few weeks with real concerns and serious problems, and I’ve felt this need to say something, anything, because I’m a pastor and we’re supposed to have deep words of wisdom to give in those moments. But I didn’t have any. I said something, but I don’t know if it was the right thing, or even helpful. Maybe there are times when nothing is better than something, where if we don’t have anything to say then we don’t need to feel obligated to say anything at all.