For at least twenty years, I have enjoyed walking labyrinths. Labyrinths are maze-like structures that have been used as spiritual tools for centuries. For the past seven years, I’ve been walking labyrinths throughout the northeastern United States, and blogging about them. To learn more about labyrinths, check out this page at the Labyrinth Society. To find labyrinths near you, try the Worldwide Labyrinth Locator.

I arrived at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA for my second labyrinth of the day.

I was thinking about all I’d experienced, learned, and written during my “Ponder Anew” retreat this past fortnight. There’s a lot of unfinished essays, scraps of paper, connected dots, and half-written ideas. All of these things are connected in one way or another to some ideas I’ve had over my life about how God and eternity work, and I have the vague idea that it could one day form a coherent project, and may even be something of an “opus” of my life’s work. (Or maybe it’s just scribbled nonsense — I really don’t know.)

And I wondered if I should try to talk about what it all is, or just keep it to myself for now, until I can get more work done on it. So I approached the labyrinth, a 7-circuit classical design, with inlaid bricks for both path and walls. I entered with this question:

Is all the stuff I’ve learned and written as part of “Ponder Anew” worth sharing with people at this point? If so, how?

“Yes, I should!” is what I heard. However, I should view it as a conversation, not as just information I dump out. I can share some of the ideas I’ve been having, but as questions to ponder together. I need to “workshop” them.

I can have one-on-one conversations with people about them.

I can blog about them, but only if I work very hard to make sure there’s a mechanism in place for conversation, and make sure that I encourage and give people a reason to reply.

I want to give this some thought, because I’m not sure what the best platform is for that. It might not be this blog.

Readers, any thoughts on how to do this best? Does anybody know of a social media platform I might explore? Thanks for any suggestions!