Tuesday, June 25, 2013

LOVE SPOKEN ON FACEBOOK (AND IN LIFEBOOK)…

LOVE SPOKEN ON FACEBOOK (AND IN LIFEBOOK)…
  
Recent research shows that those who positively post images and talk good about their relationships on Facebook are happier in real life (“Can You See How Happy We Are? Facebook Images and Relationship Satisfaction” from  http://spp.sagepub.com/content/4/4/411.abstract?rss=1).
 
Let us read this research right: The posting and talking on Facebook does not lead or make the couple to grow closer and fonder in the first instance. However, the fact that the couples are broadcasting their feelings is because the couples are already closer and enjoying colorful time together, so much so that it can’t help but spill over onto their daily social activity that includes Facebook. I am sure if you listened in to a couple of private conversations with friends and family, the same love hue and aura of satisfaction would show.
  
First of all, this came as a huge relief! (I have always had this hushed fear that some mistake my openly pronounced love for my loved ones (especially, for my dear wife) for bragging; now I know that I wasn't faking it after all, and I can be truly now be counted among those that are happy). As much as this is hard to accept, couples who enjoy their love much less show in real life, because it is really hard to pretend that things are fine when all is pain and gloom

inside! (How hard it is to hide a painful limp in a "forced marathon"!) Sooner or later, one comes to realize that if you can’t appreciate your friend in secret and in the little things, then that appreciation won’t just be conjured up before men! If it is not in the heart, then it won't sprout! It should first come from the heart, then it will blossom and be expressed unrestrained for the world to see… even if it means placing it on Facebook! One would do this without shame, as it will be as sincere as it comes! For once, Facebook is no “facemask” when it comes to love expressed!

  
Secondly, a spiritual point on the final judgment came to mind! Judgement by the supreme God at the end of time is a theme that cuts across most religions. For most Christians, this concerns the Law of God, salvation by grace, and the role of our works in it all. If God will judge us by works (2 Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 20:12 and 13), how is it that the same Bible says we are saved by grace through faith and not of works (Ephesians 2:8 and 9; Galatians 2:16)? A careful reading of scripture shows that we need to blend the two: the same Bible says that faith without works is dead (James 2:14 to 26; Ephesians 2:10; Titus 2:7 and 14). Now that makes sense, because if you love God, then this will show through your daily life choices – which are your works, as James clearly illustrates. The ways of your life will show exactly on whose side you are in this conflict of good and evil: God’s side or the devil’s, and any pretenders are put to shame (Titus 1:16). When to it comes to practical living, you and I can never pretend or hide: those who live around us know whether or not our love for God is coming from the heart, because it will show in our lives everyday, even if we don’t want it to! It comes off naturally that we reflect the master within us! Life hides no masks: it’s “Lifebook” perhaps (rivaling “Facebook”?)! Almost like a child's love, real love for God will always show!
  
So, I can freely love my God (and my wife: with God’s help, I do not plan to stop saying it and living it)!
 
 God bless.

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