Hello, again

Hello, two readers. Thank you for checking back in. As of late, this blog has fallen on hard times. You can thank facebook for that, surprisingly. I get my writing fix over there in bite-size portions. It may not be very meaningful, and the posts are necessarily short, but I can dash off a line or two between classes and feel that I have contributed something to the world.

I am currently involved in a love/hate relationship with facebook. What I hate is the weird feeling I sometimes get that I'm being a voyeur--that I'm somehow sneaking around and reading your mail. The public nature of facebook is feature that is both unsettling and comforting--unsettling, because I am not used to having friends and people I once met in the grocery story reading about events in my daily life; comforting because as everyone "goes public," I am discovering that what makes us similar to each other is much more apparent than the characteristics that make us different.

I love facebook because it has had a ministering effect to me. I have filled in gaps, placed exclamation points, and put periods at the end of relationships from long ago. I have found unexpected joy at re-connection to an old friend; I have been encouraged by the many ways God has provided for the myriad of people I have met along the way; I have found healing in the stories I read via fb emails--stories that I would have never had any other way of knowing; I have a renewed sense of hope that God is still performing miracles in the lives of His people.

I'm going to stick with facebook for at least a while longer; but I will try to get back here more regularly, hopefully with pictures and words that are also hopeful and good.

Jana