to this post (actually, it comes after the one below it, but if you're lazy, and don't want to read both, this may be the better one to start with)

to this post (actually, it comes after the one below it, but if you're lazy, and don't want to read both, this may be the better one to start with)

so a few weeks ago, i got rid of my facebook and created a new profile under the name dustin faust. i may have blogged about this, but i don't remember. it was a way to purge, and be friends with people instead of just facebook friends. so i requested the friends that i remembered seeing recently, or spent time with on a regular basis. i have one tenth of the friends that i used to. it's quite nice.

but my primary reason for doing this was so i could actually be friends with the people i claimed friendships with. so what does this mean? well, it means that i pray for my friends. i go through the list, and i pray for these people. usually just lifting a name up to God, other times, having the feeling the someone's life is in turmoil, or needing to just truly thank God for that person, i may stick with a name for longer than the rest. but i've been seeing the hand of God a lot more in my friends' lives. when i talk to them now, and ask them how they are, i actually mean it. i actually want to know how they are.

i want to get past the, "hey, how's your day?" "good" response. and i think i have. i think in a lot of ways God is causing me to become closer with these people, even if i'm really not as close as i would like to be. i'm becoming better friends with people, through spending time with God for them. it's really amazing. it's especially amazing for those of them who have blogs, and i see God at work in their lives through what they may mention.

anyways, that's how God's been blessing me a lot recently. through the internet. who would have thought that love in real tangible ways, would come through something as terrible as the internet... haha