That awkward moment when......

You see some one live and in person who you are "friends" with on facebook and they look you dead in the eye and don't recognize you.  Uh yeah that's awkward.  Really weird to be honest.  I wish I could say I said something witty, or bad ass or sarcastic but no I just chickened out and said nothing.  Yep NOTHING! Which is weird because I always have something to say.

Lately the words have been getting tangled in my mind before they can be let out my mouth.  The filter system has gotten clogged up with lack of confidence and failure to execute favor.  It's been an issue since I was a child, it's gotten  better over the years, mostly because as I get older I just don't take everything so stinking serious.  It is just not that big of a deal.  And I choose to believe that I am beloved by God and honestly I want others to feel it too.

Today why why why did I over think this FB friend thing, I guess because somedays I spend a crazy amount of glances at what my "friends" are doing on FB, perhaps that time could be spent actually talking in person live to a real friend.   Or being intentional about being present when you are with people, recently a family I just adore, put a bowl in the entry way of their home on Thanksgiving with instructions to turn off all cell devices, this was going to be an "old school" time of conversation and family time.  What I love was that the people who were in the house were the people making the memory and no one else was living it real time online with them.

Technology has its advantages but it only works if you have a real relationship, in real life.  In real life you are have to be authentic, you have to make mistakes and forgive, be happy in successes and compassionate in losses.  Be willing to get in the mess and help in the clean-up.

Awkward moments happen oh well.......