Facebook

I love FB- it has helped me to reconnect to a bunch of friends and connect to a few new ones. Right now I have 415 friends. I have friends from my home town, college days and ministry friends. I also have friends who have kids with vision/health problems like my Sam. It's so neat to be able to connect with these folks by FB:)

On the left of everyone's FB page is a section called friends, it tells how many you have and shows a random selection of six of them. Right now on my Fb page I have some heros...One is a mother of multiples, the next is a youth pastor who just lost her baby girl, the next one is a mom to 10 international adopted kids as well as 4 biological and is a breast cancer survivor. The next picture is an Assembly of God missionary/teacher who is awesome. He just lost his mom in a car accident. The next is a pastor who has his 2 beautiful adopted daughters from China as his picture.. WOW what stories these folks have to tell of the faithfulness of God!! I love looking at my friend's pictures. Sometimes I whisper a prayer for them, sometimes I laugh (LOL) and think of a crazy story about them....It's great to connect with people.

For the first time I learned of a friend's death on FB. A man my age who I'd gone to SEC with years ago. Friends were able to write things on his wall and thank him for being their friend. Without FB, I wouldn't have reconnected with him. He lived in another state and we'd lost touch. As it was, I actually had a "chat" with him on FB a few months ago and I could tell he was still faithful to God.

I've also had a SEC reunion at my church last August that happened following our church bi-annual meeting. Lots of our friends were still down in Florida and were able to come and see each other. This weekend I'm meeting with a group of Lakeland friends to go out to eat with a friend from up north who is coming down to Florida for a visit. That wouldn't have happened without FB.

Last week while we were in Palm Beach we reconnected with a couple who pastored in my town while I was growing up, again without FB it wouldn't have happened!

So I think Fb and the other ways folks connect, Twitter, MySpace, IM, texting are great ways to stay in touch!