oh no!

Oh no! Once again I've been shirking my duties to blog on here. You see, I've become a facebook addict. My email is so boring in its continual forwards from others. What happened to sending an email to say hi? Oh, sometimes I get a particularly funny or thought-provoking forward that I am thankful for, but mostly it seems to be the same repetitious political themes, or the same scary warnings that Snopes has already denied for two years. I want to know what you've been doing or who has found a particularly good new recipe that I could make for supper. I want to know how I can specifically pray for you and the struggles in your life. I want to know the answers to prayers in your life so I can rejoice with you. I want to know what you think about things, not what 15 people or 1500 people before you thought was worth sending on down the tubes. I'm sorry, I need to climb down off my soapbox here.

So why do I love facebook? Facebook is current and quick and honest. I can turn on facebook and know within a couple of minutes how my friends' days went. I knew within 3 hours when a friend passed away from cancer. Her husband shared his grief and also his relief that she was no longer suffering and in Heaven. I know what my boys are up to even though they live many miles away; one is even on the other side of the world. I can see photos the same day of my friend's first grandchild. I can talk to my nieces and my sister-in-law and my son all at the same time even though they are all in different states. I can reconnect with friends I went to summer camp with 35 years ago, and people I went to school with and I can visit with relatives who would never call or write a letter. I've even had people who were my heroes when I was a kid, ask to be my friend, right out of the blue! Wow! And the best part of all? There are no forwards on Facebook. Anybody want to be my friend?