The Colliding of Worlds
I’m pretty open. Have usually been that way. That means I live life out loud….not really hiding behind any covert agendas or platforms.
This week, however, I sensed a collision of my worlds.
I opened up a Facebook account.
(gasp!) You know what that does. It brings in people from all kinds of timelines in my life.
There is my school-days timeline….
My pre-being-married timeline…
My building a career timeline….
My God-lit-God-inspired timeline…
These are now all merging into one. People who knew different parts of me are suddenly able to peek into worlds they maybe never knew about. That means that many people who were with me when I wasn’t an “out-of-control-disciple” are now colliding with those who are on my journey with me. That means those on my current journey may learn things that they didn’t know.
It made me really think about how I’m presenting myself on Facebook. I am purposefully steering it away from any holy-roller-God-and-Jesus talk, yet purposefully allowing it to showcase some of the changes in me. That is inspiring some off-line and private conversations about those changes.
So, can Facebook be an effective shall-we-call-it Evangelism tool? Is this the kind of space where we allow the open and raw moments of our journey to be exposed? To allow God to use it without thinking that the words have to come from ourselves?
Just thoughts really…
July 11th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
funny….i’ve been in and still am in that predicament…..i actually am conscious of what i put down, and where……i have my voxtropolis blog….’the most recent new me’…..i have a blog on blogspot…’the old-living-in-the-past-a-little-bit-angry me’……..i have a myspace…’the fun-not-too-deep me’…..and i have an ‘M’, and i’m not sure who i am on there yet……………..just call me sybil……….lol