6.26- When I first started on social media about eight years ago

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6.26-

When I first started on social media about eight years ago I decided to try to be honest about the meaning of my words. I have not always succeeded with this I am sorry to say. The word friend is an example. I need to give some definitions I give to these words.
A friend is different to me than an acquaintance.
A close friend is different to me than a friend.
A beloved, close friend is to me family.

I have tried to set my posts so that you do not have to be a "friend" in order to read my "Jesus education type posts". That is meant for general sharing.

I have other posts that are telling my own history from my own point of view. All can see these as well and people don't have to see my history from my own point of view. My wife of 53 years doesn't see my history the way I do. That does not negatively affect our love and close friendship, it might make it deeper and better in fact because it is more open and honest.

A "social media 'friend'" is not a friend in any of the above definitions.

Some of my social media friends help me to open my mind and educate myself to new ways of looking at something.

Since my family is a multiracial family there is a lot of teaching and learning and new and needed and deep conversations going on between me and my family and friends in person and online. All have been and will be with deepest respect for their love for God and me in my mind on a good day.

I am completely broken and crying today thinking about my family or friends being a mistreated or even killed while innocent person whether they would be a an innocent policeman or one of their improperly shot victim. A country that is love is more broken than I can remember seeing her. She is now more open to needed conversations than I an remember and certainly with more resources of all kinds from family meetings, to phone conversations to texts to all kinds of heart moving music and video to improve our education.

I am thankful for each one of my family and real friends. I have rarely had any of my these say something on social media that I consider disrespectful and inappropriate. I I thought it was anything more than a bad day or bad moment to be forgiven or overlooked I would not "correct" or "exhort" or "rebuke" them on social media. That would be done in a different kind of private venue. Just sayin'

1 John 4.

18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear [e]involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. 19 We love, because He first loved us. 20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

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