Online Social Hubbubs All the Rage

As I have reconnected with friends and associates from the past 39 years of my life over the wonderful website Facebook (FB), sometimes it is just incredible just to take a moment and think about the various paths everyone has taken in life.

Though some friends remain close all of our lives most of us have "phases" in life in which we run with different groups of people. Mine include growing up in Houston, high school at DeSoto, attending Howard Payne and Baylor, living in Fort Worth, working with Excel in the mid 90s, the singles department at Fielder Road and finally my current life in Mansfield and working with Equal Health.

In some instances decades have gone by with little or no contact with many of these old friends and it’s a real shock (and mostly pleasure) when those connections are remade through various social hubbubs like FB. Recently I spent some time on a college friends FB page looking at their photos and reading about their lives. Over 18 years ago we hung out nearly every day as irresponsible, fun loving, college kids. Since then adulthood took over and now here we are back in touch; kids, families and professions in tow along with us. He likely has hours full of stories and events he has experienced that I am clueless about and the same with me. Yet, once communications start up, it is as if those years never occurred.

As I near 40 I am already working on my planned mid-life crisis. It’s gonna be a party like 1999 (though more than likely I will be in bed right after Letterman’s monologue if not before). Catching up with all of these people spread out all over the nation and some even further away, it is humbling. Life just goes too fast. Next thing you know we’ll be sharing stories about being grandparents.

Oops…some already can.

Facebook is great. It makes me laugh at the days of old, smile at the good things of today, work towards making tomorrow incredible, and think deeply about how it will all wind down.

Life is good, but God is better. Let’s make this the best day of the rest of our lives.

"Love each other with a warm love that comes from the heart. After all, you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth. As a result you have sincere love for each other." 1 Peter 1:22

(c) 2009, J. Brady Speers

"I say it as I see it and I make no bones about it!"

Remember When? Easter Should Remind You

Sometimes it's good for us to remember...

Remember when you talked behind the back of someone you really cared about?

Remember when you stretched the truth just a little to make yourself look good?

Remember when you laughed when someone was being made fun of?

Remember when you said those words you wish now you could have back?

Remember the stupid fight you caused to prove a point not worth proving?

Remember when you promised God you'd do this, or that, if He would only....

Remember when you cussed out the car that cut in front of you in rush hour?

Remember when you tore down someone's dreams by telling them they'd never make it?

Remember when you felt so jealous of the things your best friend accomplished?

Remember when you said you pray for them...only to fail to really do it?

Remember when you took credit for something that you didn't do?

Remember when you didn't answer the phone when you knew someone needed your ear?

Remember when you didn't tithe or give more because there was something you really wanted?

Remember when you were so insecure you did things with someone you wish you could forget?

Remember when you felt so helpless and dirty?

Remember when you just wish you could forgive and forget?

Remember when you didn't let go and let God?

Remember when you were in need of someone to save you and He did?

Do you remember when?

Be reminded this Easter Sunday, because I can assure you He didn't forget. He slept in your tomb so all of these things you could forget and never remember again.

You need Him, remember?

"This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me." 1 Corinthians 11:23-25

© 2000, J. Brady

"I say it how I see it and I make no bones about it."