For Whom?

Who is my intended audience for this work? Well, first and foremost, my audience is God. God, quite obviously, does not need the internet or the printing press to hear what is in my heart. But I do truly want my work to be for God.

And by the same token, my second most important audience is my own heart. I find that when I write, it solidifies my own thinking and even my own prayers. I am doing this because I want to draw closer to God. All of that can be done, and perhaps done better when there is no other audience at all.

But I do think that there is a reason for making this public, though of course a blog confers a dubious public status. Only time will tell whether anyone but myself will choose to read this.

As I mentioned on the page about my reasons for doing this, I think it is helpful sometimes to look outside of our usual framework to find truths we may have become blinded to by familiarity. So I think of this as primarily a work for Christians. I also hope that some of the Christians I know (and don't know yet) who have formed the opinion that there is nothing beautiful or valuable in Islam might come to see things a little bit differently.

This is not primarily a work for Muslims, although perhaps it may be useful to them to see something familiar to them through an outsider's eyes. And perhaps, Muslims may learn something of Christianity by reading this. But that is not my primary purpose in writing. At the same time, I will be extremely grateful to Muslims reading this if you will tell me where I may have misunderstood things. And I will be very grateful to any and all of my readers if you would share your own responses to these names as we go along. It would be much more fun if this became not just one middle-aged Christian woman's thoughts but the thoughts of a whole group of people.