its been a long time

this week started with an "i'm thinking about leaving facebook until after the election" post that inspired some conversation between some friends of mine that do not know each other, Jeanne Janet and Pat. Janet and Pat know each other well but neither of them has met Jeanne. They need to meet her and Jeanne them. Not sure how this is going to happen, but these are 3 women that love God and demonstrate His love to others in awesome ways (like my Jenny, of course).

This thought led me to think about the nature of my "leaving Facebook" post. I was frustrated by my friends posting political stuff. I do not want FB to be a political platform - these are my friends, and I do not usually talk politics with my friends so why would I want to play that game on Facebook. I love every person that I have confirmed or asked to be my friend. I do not want their political persuasion and the fact that they might push that persuasion on FB to be a stumbling block for me. On the other hand, the fact that my post resulted in these 3 Godly women interacting is a GOOD thing.

so today was my birthday. somewhat frustrating due to all the driving and the first two hours of it being in typical northern va traffic. but it was a blessing too. earlier the holy spirit snuck up on me in church...church that i did not want to do because of the traffic mentioned earlier - i thought i would rather get on the road early and beat everyone down the road. God had other plans. the episcopal lectionary for today includes John 6:51-58 where Christ talks about his body and blood. it is a great message for a day with communion and a baptism. i remember this passage from disciple bible study because of the verses that follow it where we find that Christ's message was so difficult for some of his followers that they abandoned the ministry. i thought about my day and how it started with me so wanting to do my own thing (on my birthday) to get home as soon as possible and resenting church...then..."hello, Christ calling. what are you up to? how are your parents? ah, you are with them at church. can you hear me? did you get that word about my body and blood? it was a good one wasn't it? are we good? ok, you can go now." it almost went down like that...i could not hear him until the lesson was preached and i had taken part in His body and blood. there were at least a couple tears shed during those moments. you cannot ask for a better birthday.

then i got to speak with david in TZ and received a pic text from rick and autumne and fb posts from many friends. super day.