This began as a comment on AndrewSW's blog but became so lengthy that I decided to include it here as well. In his pursuit of topics for his blog paper he has come up with some very deep and insightful ideas. I suggest you follow his journey to the eventual paper that will transpire. Here is the comment I added to his post:

This is very bizarre. 2 nights ago I laid in bed trying to fall asleep and was thinking about how I had never kept a Journal or Diary before but I had kept a prayer journal. I then was thinking about how I could deploy a web prayer journal (and as a blogger therefore a prayer blog). This thought had really intrigued me. The problem I thought would be opening myself up in a way that I had never done before. I'm generally a very open person and have no problem praying aloud in front of others, although the thought of publishing my personal prayers seems to me to be so much different. These would be my prayers, which would contain my wants, my desires, my sins, and my open heart. That's when I realized what a blog was. I realized that if I made my prayer blog private it wouldn't be a blog. It would be a journal on my computer. And then what? What would be different then me writing it in my personal prayer journal. Blogging is a community act where one writes to be read and then one reads that which others have written. Aye there's the rub. The point at which my prayer blog becomes read by others, some I know and others I don't. I'm not sure that I would have any feeling of concern if people I didn't know were reading it, but for the people that know me? I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet. I'm not sure if I’ll ever be ready. As I'm writing this, a thought comes to mind about my prayers being my intimate conversation with God, something that is between me and Him alone. I feel prayer journaling is important because with it we can see exactly where and when God is in our lives. It becomes almost a tracking system of sorts. For now, I'll continue my private prayer journal......hmm...I have to think/pray more on this one.