INSPIRASUNS

The night before last I got a text from a friend asking if I was free to chat yesterday morning. I haven’t spoken to her in many weeks and I was wondering if there was something wrong when she asked if I could talk. I texted back of course and we made a plan to chat.

Right on schedule yesterday morning she texted and asked if it was a good time and I returned her text with a phone call, to say verbally yep it’s a good time 🙂 . I asked how she was and how things were going, wondering as I said before if something was wrong. What she said next brought me to tears. She simply said, “You have been in my heart and in my thoughts so much I just wanted to check in on you. I wanted to see how you were doing. I know how busy you are and I know how stressed this time is and I’m worried about you, how are you doing”.

Over the next several minutes we talked and I shared how I was, stressed yes, (like most people these days), but doing okay. We got caught up on things since we last spoke many weeks ago. She shared some challenges she was going through, the death of a friend and an accident with a family member leaving them hospitalized. I told her with what she had going on I couldn’t believe she was calling to check on me. I felt so bad for what she was going through. Here she was calling me through these challenges. We chatted more and then ended with I love you and promising to say prayers for each other.

Friends, what I realized when I hung up was how a short phone call from a friend is an incredible gift. In this day of texting and all the other chat apps out there, it’s still the phone call that makes the difference. I text with this friend weekly, I text with many friends weekly/daily actually. It’s not the same. You can’t feel the emotion, you can’t listen for that hidden tone in a voice that tells you something is wrong in a text.

We need to get back to talking to each other. Emails, text messages, and private social media chats are a way to communicate yes, however, there is nothing that can replace a good “old fashioned” conversation with someone. We are social beings, we need stimulation through conversation, we need connection, and we simply aren’t meant to be isolated and alone. We are meant to be together, support one another, and lift each other.

So, I encourage you, to phone a friend, or a family member, check in with them, catch up, and enjoy the connection. Let these special people in your lives know that you care, let them know that you were thinking about them. Father wants us to be together and to help each other, and as simple as it sounds, a phone call is a way to do that.

Have a great day my friends, I’m off to set a time to call some folks 🙂 .

Hebrews 10:25
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.