Friday, January 21, 2011

For the Haters

You know I get all the smack talk about Facebook. I understand the criticism, I get it, I really do. Even I hate Facebook sometimes; I've said to much and been misunderstood. I've said just enough and been blasted. I've said things I shouldn't have said and would have never said to someone's face and just when I think I'm never going to make another Facebook mistake I go and make another one. I get it.

But I just gotta say, for all the haters, Facebook just may have been instrumental in saving little Maggie's life this week. If prayer releases power from heaven then 100 people praying is better than 10 and 1000 people praying is better than 1000. Within hours of Maggie's birth and subsequent intubation and other life saving measures, people were praying. They were leaving comments and posting status updates and pretty soon 20 people turned into 200 and 200 turned to 2000 and now after 4 days of having her own blog up, Maggie's blog has had over 4000 visitors. That is amazing.

In Maggie's situation, where time was critical and she would be progressing one minute and at Heaven's door the next, you can bet that the prayers of the people who were literally stalking Maryanne's Facebook page released power from Heaven.

I know I'm not going to change anyone's mind about Facebook because of this one blog post and I'm not planning on doing a series of why Facebook is great or is evil. I simply wanted to write, for all the haters, that Facebook can be pretty awesome when it comes to gettin' the word out.

5 comments:

Christy said...

Amen Sister!!
Oh and you really need to text me ;)

MarthaBean said...

Well said!! I've never been so glued to Facebook as I have been this last week.

Red said...

Amen Sista!...p.s. I didn't see the comment from the other Christ until I typed mine. But I'm not going to change it now. Christy's think alike. ;)

Red said...

oops...I meant to type Christy. I'm tired and need to go to bed!

Christy said...

Christy, I know another Christy and we tend to think alike too. Oh and it's spelled the right way too ;)