Facebook has allowed me to catch up with many old/long lost friends. Friends where our lives changed and our circles/patterns just didn’t really include each other anymore.
JH though was someone I with whom I went to high school…and for the first couple of years after high school, his mom was our neighbor. JH and I would sit outside and talk forever it seemed. We’d joke about him having cheated off me in high school spanish class…
At that time I was very a very outspoken Christian. During one of our midnight talks shortly after high school, he told me he had gotten his high school girlfriend pregnant. She wanted an abortion, but he wanted the baby. We talked more and more about it…and I of course went to religion. We prayed and talked several nights about this as he really wanted the kid. Being a Christian then, I of course used this time to talk to him about “accepting” Christ. After a couple of weeks, news came that she was not going to have an abortion. He was so overcome by that…that he did pray with me to become a Christian.
I’ve often wondered how sincere that moment (and others like them) were. I’ve often wondered was *I* sincere in what I was preaching? Was *I* preying upon people in a weak moment? In crisis?
I…might have an answer for that moment. JH found me on facebook, and I see pictures of him on a missions trip in Mexico…even giving his testimony. I feel horrible as one of my first thoughts is wondering if it involves that time at all.
