The last several weeks I have watched as friends post updates and prayer requests for a woman, a young mother, dying of colon cancer. Tonight, as I read updates and finally "like" the page, I can't help but contemplate the intimite moments shared across the world on social media.
After years of waiting, you see your friend finally adopt, and then raise a beautiful child.
Following a person from engagement through wedding, and maybe to a baby announcement.
Death.
Birth.
Life is all shared relatively publically with"friends"
Following the posts at "Support Angela Faddis" has been particularly moving. I can hardly put into words what this precious family is facing in real life. On facebook they look incredibly brave, incredibly trusting...and have incredible faith. In real life, I am sure they are this...but how incredibly hard these moments are and how profoundly they are shared.
This precious family has over 4600 likes, which equals that plus more "friends" and strangers, praying for them. Pleaes pray for the Faddis family as Angela nears heaven.
2 comments:
We don't "do" facebook but did while friends went through the process of watching their son (their third child, now their second in heaven) pass away. It was often updated by their close relatives and sometimes the parents themselves but was a nice way to share prayer requests, experiences, and photos. Now they still update it with anniversary photos from the cemetary and discussing what they did on the day or weekend as they remembered their passing with the beautiful and healthy boy they do have with them. Thank you God for our healthy children and not having to see them waste away, from disease or hunger. Please protect us and give us Your peace.
Since I am not on facebook either, I can't read your link, but I will remember this family in prayer.
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