“I know where she is,” a friend recently told me in relation to a loved one. “See, she’s here.” I watched as she pulled up the “Find My Friends” app on her phone. We decided to add each other as “friends” so we could see where each other is during the day and pray for one another. I became amazed and ABSORBED with the app. I could watch my friend drive down the highway; know she was at Walmart and when she returned home. I switched to myself and saw the blue satellite “bling” and follow me to work, the cleaners, and …
Dear friend: a letter for the end of a year
By now you know I didn’t get Christmas cards sent this year. Though I couldn’t squeeze out the time to get them done, I feel compelled to carve out this time to write you a letter. A real letter. There’s something I want you to know before tomorrow comes and we stand on the first step of 2014 and wave goodbye to the year that was 2013. There’s something I need to tell you. I looked back over our Facebook messages to remember that thing you said to me, but I got distracted, scrolling through all the things that …