Celebrating Possibilities
It is hard to know what is okay to share and what violates our children's privacy. In the world before blogging and social media, where would we share our hard-earned celebrations of promotions, won games, and first steps? Where would we seek solace when the dream hoped for was deferred or when a loved one was lost? My first thought is Sunday School. My second thought is around the table on Wednesday night. They call these dying pieces of the institutional church, but they are what I knew growing up, and they are what I have known at every church since. Faces of the Church - individual and corporate - appear before me as I revisit such pivotal moments too personal to even hint at. And it makes sense that this is where such sharing would occur. We rub shoulders with those who would shape us and with who would allow us to shape them in return. We are invested in one another. I find that some of the same does happen in the mega-room that blogging and social media allow even as I am ...