Guest speaker today was Derek Smith from Kings Church (being a pedant, is there an apostrophe missing?) Interesting preach on coloured pegs:
Red - bad moments in life
Green - good moments in life
Blue - people God sends along to have around to help
Orange - those people that are an annoyance and hindrance.
Caused me to think,
- Who would I ring at a time when I needed some Godly Advice? (blue peg)
- Am I an orange peg to some?
I have deleted some "friends" from FB who are not blue pegs to me but also some for whom I may be an orange peg.
It's interesting at this time of abstinence from Facebook that I have learned there are people who do understand and accept me for being the opinionated person that I am, these are the ones that still make contact with me. Others, who perhaps don't understand me and see me as an orange peg, have made no contact and maybe have even deleted me from their lists.
At present time, I find myself getting frustrated and annoyed by the behaviour and apparent attitudes of others. So much so that I am feeling low and despondent. Am I carrying someone else's monkey? Am I concerning myself with things I don't need to concern myself with? Am I mis-interpreting situations? Do I need to "get a life"?
This last week, I was offered a couple of tickets to go and see my home town football team play. All "friends" I thought about taking are either season ticket holders anyway or were invloved in a conference at Church. Sitting in the ground all alone, I then remembered someone with whom I have had very little contact with over the last couple of years and yet lives less than half a mile from my home.
Maybe it's time to re-establish regular contact and accept him for who and how he is just as others accept me the same way.
So what else have I learned in this first week of Lent?
I have come to see that FB is a means to communicate with friends in a cheap-no-effort-blasé kind of way. It’s easy to post on my wall and hope people notice and commenty and then to post one liners on others’ walls wondering if they will read and reply. It has shown me that there are other means e.g. messenger-see someone online and engage in conversation, send a text, pick up phone and ring someone up.
Facebook is lazy. Facebook can be used as a force for good, (catching up with friends from years back) but often through misunderstanding has the opposite effect. Friendship takes effort. Facebook is easy.
Maybe it's time for me to make an effort.
Facebook is lazy. Facebook can be used as a force for good, (catching up with friends from years back) but often through misunderstanding has the opposite effect. Friendship takes effort. Facebook is easy.
Maybe it's time for me to make an effort.
