Valorie Wells Davenport

I cannot believe the world is getting so much smaller. Yet I see it, each and every single day. When people encouraged me to set up this blog, they also suggested that I join “Facebook.”  Frankly, I wasn’t sure why. Before a few days ago, I’d always  thought “Faacebook” was for college age kids, like my son and daughter. Then my friends who helped me set up this blog also set me up on “Facebook.” 

Within the first eight hours, I connected with several people who were once a significant part of my life, but somehow, over time, had just drifted away….and, I thought, were never to be seen or heard from again.  I am not sure how that happens. While some of them may be those who “there is a time and season for every purpose under heaven…” others, in many ways, seemed to be a casualty of each of us just moving way too fast and forgeting to take the time to tend to and nurture our relationship, even as occassionally as we would water your average house plant.  

So, Facebook, much like this page, seems to be providing me something of a wake up call: an opportunity to re-examine and more clearly articulate my values, then to actually adjust my time and effort more in line with my chosen purpose(s). Luckily, it has happened while I still have the time and energy left in my life to go back and fix some old hurts and losses that I wished I’d never let happen. And that’s a good thing: to have “a purpose driven life” rather than to just wake up one day and ask yourself “what happened?” knowing it’s way too late — that life is ”done” and we are out of time to fix anything.  But now, there is still time to repair some old wounds and reconnect with old friends. Like I said; that’s a good thing. As far as this  heart is concerned, we can never have too much joy or heal too much old pain.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 8th, 2009 at 10:14 pm and is filed under Defining moments, My personal gratitude list., My softer side.... You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.