Hearts of Christian HomeKeepers™

For those of you “in the know” FB usually stands for “Face Book.”  But lately I’ve been thinking that it should stand for “Friend Bank.”  I joined FB a few months ago at the request of a local acquaintance in her attempt to set up communication amongst our local PTA moms.  (She has since left the PTA and I am the newly-elected President.  But that is another long post for another day.)  So anyway, I became a FB member and quickly started finding old friends from high school and college.  I really didn’t go looking for them but they started popping up as soon as I entered where I went to school.

In the past 3 months I have really re-connected with three good friends from high school.  We were friends back, uh-hum, in the 80′s, but weren’t inseparable, if you know what I mean.  But now that we are all, shall I say, older, we have even  more in common and are really enjoying each others virtual company.  This was all fine and casual until one of my friends, Becky, told us that she has recently had a stroke.  We were all in shock!  But the amazing thing is that her FB/high school buddies, are helping her each and every day.  We are her support group and her exercise pals.  You see, she has trouble with verbal and motor skills now and knowing we are just a few clicks away, motivates her to get up each morning, sit at her computer and exercise her brain to think, formulate thoughts, tell her fingers where to type and what to say.  I guess you could say we are her therapists and cheerleaders.

The best part is that I am planning a trip back home to Louisiana in a couple of weeks and we are all planning a reunion at Becky’s house.  It will be so great to see them all again after 25 years.  FB has allowed us to pick up where we left off in the summer of 1985 and not miss a beat.  It totally amazes me how God prepares us for rough times and rocky waters.  He has placed friends, old friends, in Becky’s path at just the right time in her life when she needs some sisterly support.   FB.  Not just for teenagers anymore.

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