With frequent regularity Facebook asks me and millions of others "What's on your mind?". And we post. Some of us blog. Others stealthily move in and out of one another's 'minds' either jumping from one person to another or by checking out their 'feed'. Celebrations, trials and plain ordinary life in between gets posted 'in the cloud' for others to see. A cacophony of mindful, mindless and the gamut between, etched pieces of life held 'somewhere', for a long time.
A while after a friend, John Skogland passed, I noticed my feed still getting volleys from him. His account still active. It was others posting thoughts, missing this wonderful man on his Facebook page, and he was quite the guy! And another, from my dad, who passed this last July. An archive of millions, possibly billions living still, as far as Facebook knows, in 'the cloud' no one there to end the Facebook life.
Crashing in to me came the revelation that our electronic lives can live on far beyond our earthly one. Even this blog may probably do the same. Another Facebook friend, a past student whose daddy is dying of cancer posted an out of print book that a friend gave her about miracles. Books go 'out of print', hard copies singular testimonies of the work, but will Facebook and blogs ever go 'out of print?. Will we ever fill the cloud with so much 'stuff' we will not be able to continue the 'keeping'? (Leave it to me to think such crazy things).
In a recent blog, I shared about a few lives. These few lives in need of a miracle (don't we all need miracles?). A teacher friend of mine posted about a dad cussing her out blaming her for the lack of success of his son. My life was also powerfully connected to Kim and Ken thanks to a friend of hers that blogged and a friend of mine who got posted to my feed. And this was real food for this living soul, Kim's life and struggles lived out as testimony to the power of God for any to clearly see. And so I posted, and blogged, what was on my mind. I get the joy and agony of hearing about an overwhelmed dad and an overwhelmed woman in both in the throes of life, working through it; messy, celebratory, simple, complex, life. Lives 'held' 'in the cloud'.
I am very thankful we live in a time where we 'can' be so 'connected; to one another. My heart sinks and rises in thankfulness for those whose lives of humility and reality, real reality, natural reality, are hung out for one another to see. I am even more thankful for those whose response is to hold one another up in prayer before the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who is working out His will for any choosing to see.
Should life as we know it tarry for millenia, I wonder if our Facebook lives and blogs will so too. Who will read and stumble upon the works of small individuals posting amazing testimonials of the eternal work of God? Knowing this might change what you think about posting...or not. Either way, inquiring minds, especially this one, wants to know, "What's on your mind?"
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