Like most things, there are both good things and bad things about social media. It can bring people together, teach people new things, and expose people to things and points of view they may have never been able to experience in the real world.
There’s also the negative side.
Social media can be a breeding ground for people to become abusive and emboldened to say things they would never have the guts to in real life all because they are hiding behind a screen.
This is the very reason why blogger Stacey Philpot decided to take a little break from the divisive atmosphere of the internet.
“I needed some space between me and all the heated political discussions, the finger-pointing, and name-calling,” she said in a blog post for Her View From Home. “I looked forward to the wide-open space free from Facebook notifications.”
She was enjoying the bliss of being unplugged when a friend reached out to her to tell her about the latest viral feel-good post that was sweeping the internet.
“At first, I couldn’t understand why she felt it was so vital I see this particular thread,” she explains. “It was about a young man who’d stood alone that morning around his school’s flagpole praying in observance of the annual See You At The Pole day for students.”
Stacey claims that she had no idea who the subject of the post was, a subject whose parents were being praised on the internet for raising such an upstanding young man.
“As I scrolled through the pictures, it hit me–––––the boy who stood alone at the pole was my boy. They were talking about my son, “she wrote.
What a coincidence!
“The toddler who loved Elmo and couldn’t go to sleep without holding his Veggie Tales characters in his hands had captured the attention of our community by standing alone, by doing everything we’d ever taught him, everything we’d ever hoped he would do. I was completely undone,” she expressed.
Her son later explained to his mom that he was the only child who went and prayed at the flagpole.
In his prayer, he had asked God to not let him stand alone at that flagpole. Her son was shocked by the big way that God answered his prayer.
“So to you, wherever it is in your life you stand alone, be it a flag pole or a marriage, a place of work or a seemingly impossible situation, I believe my son would like to remind you God can do big things with your standing alone,” she told her readers. “Perhaps, for now, you are praying until someone else shows up or takes notice. God sees, he knows, and he can do big things.”
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