The Jackson Family Online

I just had the wierdest thing happen on facebook. I thought I would check out what people had posted lately, honestly I guess I was just killing some time and all of sudden I have a message pop up from Pastor Ben where I can chat online with him. I assumed this meant Pastor Ben from The Bridge…which was fine, in fact I’ve been wanting to tell him how happy I am for The Bridge on being able to purchase a building for their church and how the girls and I would like to come some Sunday when they get all moved in etc. But it wasn’t the Pastor Ben I know…it was a Pastor Ben from Uganda, Africa. So I immediately began searching through my friend list wondering how in the world I would’ve gotten connected with him and discovered that we have no mutual friends in any way…so how would he have gotten my name…I clicked on the add friend thing awhile back again because I was assuming it was Pastor Ben from THe Bridge…obviously I should’ve been a little more discerning. The Uganda Pastor Ben is at an orphanage in Uganda and was very nice/polite. But the whole time I had this wierd feeling about it all, maybe because I had made such an extreme error in thinking I knew who I was talking to. I ended up deleting his name off of my friend list…part of me feels bad about that…if he is a pastor and all and a head of an African orphange in Uganda…but part of me just couldn’t reconcile the fact that I have no idea who he is and whether or not I want him to be able to have access to things I might post or receive. It was just kind of wierd…and yet kind of neat in a way that possibly I just talked with a man in Uganda while sitting at my little computer desk in Illinois. I know more and more people are joining facebook…I haven’t yet been able to allow Lauren to do it simply because of this kind of stuff…still seems a little far out to me, a little unprotected at times. Who knows…maybe someday Pastor Ben from Uganda will walk up to me in heaven and say…’Hey…haven’t we met before…” and I’ll smile and know that I had an encounter with him on earth over facebook.
Just had to tell somebody,
Ruth