I just recieved this text from my friend, Ryan:
“It’s your birthday according to Facebook. Is this true?”
Yes.
According to some, you don’t exist if you don’t have a Facebook page. Well, I am here to tell you that my mother can confirm the labor pains that she endured on June 13th, 1982 when this little bundle of screaming joy, (or attempting to scream since I had the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck) graced the world.
Facebook – you don’t define my existence.
But this isn’t really about me. This is about Love and Respect NOW. It is my desire to make our existence more widely known so that we have a broad community where…
1) We can talk about relationships.
2) I can attempt to answer your questions about relationships.
3) You can help me attempt to answer peoples’ questions, since my personal relationship track record ain’t so successful.
4) We can discuss why our generation does what it does. And then do something about it.
5) We can contemplate God’s goodness, His plan for us and His funny little way of creating us…male and female. (Genesis 1)
The meat of our discussions will always be here on the website, but for a fun place to discuss questions and hear what’s on your mind, we have created the Love and Respect NOW Facebook page.
Hello, world. Hello, Ryan. It is, in fact The Love and Respect NOW Facebook Page and Joy Eggerichs’ day of birth.
Just confirming our existence.
Love and Respect (Now) is a division of Love and Respect. Please be considerate.
From My Heart
All of the Love and Respect Now Posts…In One Place!
Emerson & Sarah Eggerichs on Marriage, Parenting, Family of Origin, Work & Death
Fighting for Love (and Other Potentially Hazardous Cliches)
Very COOL!
Would like to send to my second son, Stephen. He was born in 1982, too, the third of our seven wonderful kids.
Mike – Very special.
Liam – Please send to anyone you think may enjoy the discussion. Thank you!
Consider yourself liked!
And talking about things not existing unless they are on facebook… my husband wanted to delete his facebook account and I told him he can’t, because no one would believe someone married me unless it was on facebook! So now he’s stuck there.
Mary – That was hilarious. You kill me.
Happy Happy Birthday!! Today is also my daughter’s birthday… except she is 11. 🙂 I was also born in 1982! I love your blog! Very wise and insightful information that I can apply to myself and my new marriage! I love how you keep it real and put things into perspective!
Honey Bunches of Oats is my favorite cereal! 🙂
This was entertaining!
Dear Joy,
I was born just 9 days after you, also with my umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. Niiiiiiice! I KNEW there was yet another reason I liked you!
Heading over to facebook now……
You go, girl!
Ashley – Thank you! I hope you and your daughter (soon enough) will be encouraged by the site.
Darcie – Those were the film guys. Pretty old I might add. (-:
Faith – Glad you were entertained!
Kelly – Umbilical cords always bring people together. Well, at least mothers and their offspring.
Sue – Thank you!
you eat stuff off the floor a lot.
I need a “like” button for Aaron’s comment…
Love that you are eating Honey Bunches of Oats! My fav cereal! : ) You are too funny!!
oh how i love you! seriously so funny!!
Alece – I’m glad you think so…I think others may feel “slightly off” would be a better description of my on camera performances.
Sue – Not sure what you mean…June 13th is the day we launched the FB page. ?? Sorry…I’m not tracking. (-:
Ladies: I think we are way behind here… this is from all the way back on June 13th… Or is that the way it is supposed to be? I am such a facebook junkie, I hardly know anything else!
Hi, Joy! I was being a little funny/sarcsatic in saying “we are way behind…” I am accustomed to the facebook comments that go lickety split and then they seem to get lost in history… so to have a “post” from June 13 still availble and not buried is quite different than the ‘book. I can see, however, that the same thing goes on, it just looks different because this is on it’s own separate page, whereas the fb posts go on the wall. Kind of like the hallway in highschool, where everyone hangs out at their lockers talking between classes. Sort of like that! I have to tell you you have been a big hit in my heart, I jsut LOVE the way you hang it all out there with no “Gosh, what if they think I’m wierd?!”. Not visibly anyway! I appreciate your style AND your message!… have fun and remember to thank your momma and poppa for such a great platform on which to stand (yes?). See, on facebook I could say that privately, and not be so blabby in public… maybe there is a way on here, too, I just am unfamiliar with blogs. Loving you! ~Sue
Hey, Joy! Here’s a cute one…
RE:Comment from Liam
Time June 13, 2011 at 3:00 pm
“Very COOL!
Would like to send to my second son, Stephen. He was born in 1982, too, the third of our seven wonderful kids.”
Your response was: Send it to anyone who might enjoy the discussion. But I think he wants to send his son to YOU! Hahaha! I’m with him, we need more of Joy in this world!
Sue – Thank you so much for the encouragement and your kind words. Yes – the blog is more of the “substance” and far more work to post than just throwing something in Facebook. Look for the meaty stuff here and the Facebook page as lighter info and discussion!
will do, and thank you for what you are doing, it is much needed and a lot of fun, as well!
There’s no question that Sue’s hunch has merit. My primary motivation, however, derives from the fact that Stephen, much like his older brother is profoundly shy. What I had really envisioned was that he might be able to learn important principles of interpersonal relations from someone like you, Joy, who radiates wholesomeness and yet reveals a Christian maturity that authenticates it. This he might accomplish to some extent at least without the “danger” of face-to-face interaction.
Mike thinks...
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