With the encouragement and recommendation of my good friend and Brother Draco Alexander, I embarked on a journey to research FaceBook. I have to admit that I never thought that I would ever want or care to participate in MySpace or FaceBook. Boy was I wrong! I don’t know anything about MySpace but I was thoroughly blown away by what I saw on FaceBook.
FaceBook appears to be a central online meeting place where like-minded people and friends can keep in touch with each other no matter where they are in the world. I don’t know much about the power of FaceBook but I do know what happened to me, and my family, when I logged on.
After I set up my account I went looking for Brother Draco. He had told me that everybody we knew was on FaceBook so I checked out his huge list of friends. He was so right. Everybody we knew was on FaceBook. So I did it to see what would happen, I added Draco as my first friend. That is when it all began. As I started to invite others as friends people started to ask me to be friends. I couldn’t add them fast enough. My wife and daughter were sitting at the table with me and I started to exclaim how all the people we knew were here on FaceBook. When I started out my wife made comments like I can’t believe you are doing that. We had spent quite some time keeping ourselves away from this type of online stuff.
However, as I started to talk out loud about the people that I was adding as friends and that were adding me as friend she started to get excited about the possibilities that FaceBook might have for her. Next, our 14 year old daughter wanted to participate as well. By the end of the evening we were all adding friends and chatting with our friends online on FaceBook, all across the country. At one time the three of us were all chatting with Draco at the same time.
Remember, we are fairly isolated in our off-grid home on our forty acres. We usually have to travel great distances to be with community. Sometimes we forget how much we miss our tribe and how much our tribe misses us. We also forget how important it is to stay connected with the people you love. Without their loving influence upon you one is ultimately incomplete. You can actually forget who you truly are. I think that has happened to us from time to time. Then we get in our car and drive to a tribal gathering, hang out with beloveds and come back home remembering how huge and beautiful life is.
What is the power of tribe? The power of tribe is uplifting. The power of tribe reminds you of who you are. The power of tribe encourages you to achieve your highest vision and to help you manifest your dreams. The power of tribe includes you in a like minded community that reminds you that you are not alone.
