Okay, I know this is highly unusual for me to post twice in one day let alone twice in one month. (Maybe as excited as I am about our FL trip, I am equally unexcited about packing for some reason.)
Anyway, I have been feeling so sad today. I cannot decide if facebook is a good thing or not. I was enjoying keeping up with old and new friends in a more day-to-day fashion, but one of these old friends is just breaking my heart. I grew up with her & her sister from the age of 8 until we went away to college. We went to church together and were sisters in Christ together. She went to Dartmouth and we lost touch. I did see her again about 11 years ago when her father passed away unexpectedly and I "heard" how the family had all fallen away after the father died. Enough of the backstory, though. She is as interesting as ever (lives almost a homestead old-fashioned life), but very liberal in all her beliefs. For instance, she was heartbroken when Senator Kennedy passed away recently and is very much for the health care bill & all of the "change" Obama will be bringing. Yesterday, she was extremely disappointed in Maine for voting against gay marriage. I sat in Bible classes with this girl - they rarely missed services. I know she was taught differently. How, then, can we be so very different?
Sadly, pretty much all of those kids in my Bible class do not attend services anymore, but through the years I have prayed for them and hope they will come back to those early teachings. Now, I'm not so sure. Is this like a Perz thing where if I pray it, the outcome may surprise me? Honestly, I am afraid not to pray because she is so very far away now. When I pointed out a few verses against men with men, women with women, the "debate" was stated to be an issue with government and not with religious beliefs. I was just hoping to gently remind her of what her own father would have told her were he alive. This makes me so sad I have to stop writing this right now. Maybe I'll finish my thoughts later. I think I'll be praying for all the young ones where we worship now while I'm cooking dinner. Sigh. I wish, like the Bible class song we sang just last night, that I could roll right over that old devil!
Anyway, I have been feeling so sad today. I cannot decide if facebook is a good thing or not. I was enjoying keeping up with old and new friends in a more day-to-day fashion, but one of these old friends is just breaking my heart. I grew up with her & her sister from the age of 8 until we went away to college. We went to church together and were sisters in Christ together. She went to Dartmouth and we lost touch. I did see her again about 11 years ago when her father passed away unexpectedly and I "heard" how the family had all fallen away after the father died. Enough of the backstory, though. She is as interesting as ever (lives almost a homestead old-fashioned life), but very liberal in all her beliefs. For instance, she was heartbroken when Senator Kennedy passed away recently and is very much for the health care bill & all of the "change" Obama will be bringing. Yesterday, she was extremely disappointed in Maine for voting against gay marriage. I sat in Bible classes with this girl - they rarely missed services. I know she was taught differently. How, then, can we be so very different?
Sadly, pretty much all of those kids in my Bible class do not attend services anymore, but through the years I have prayed for them and hope they will come back to those early teachings. Now, I'm not so sure. Is this like a Perz thing where if I pray it, the outcome may surprise me? Honestly, I am afraid not to pray because she is so very far away now. When I pointed out a few verses against men with men, women with women, the "debate" was stated to be an issue with government and not with religious beliefs. I was just hoping to gently remind her of what her own father would have told her were he alive. This makes me so sad I have to stop writing this right now. Maybe I'll finish my thoughts later. I think I'll be praying for all the young ones where we worship now while I'm cooking dinner. Sigh. I wish, like the Bible class song we sang just last night, that I could roll right over that old devil!
