Tonight I opened the folder in which I’ve printed out emails from people about my www.militaryprayers.org website. I paused over one from a delightful woman named Onita in Roswell, New Mexico. She told me that she’s in a women’s circle that sews cool collars for our soldiers in the desert and they’d just purchased ten yards of material and wanted to make one for each of the members of my son’s platoon.
I emailed her back and told her that thankfully Chris is scheduled to come home by the end of October and we’d been told that the deadline for the last packages was September. However I asked Onita if I might find out if another military mom who had emailed me from Kentucky might see if her son could use them. The mother in Kentucky was thrilled as someone had given her son one of the collars and he loved it.
This illustrates how the internet is being used by God’s good people to connect us in ways that wasn’t possible a few years ago. God connected three women, one in Georgia, one in New Mexico and one in Kentucky to send something halfway around the world to Iraq. He paired a giver with someone who was a grateful receiver even though they were hundreds of miles apart.Â
I read several weeks ago that people of faith are the most frequent users of the internet and that religious sites outnumber all others.  Guideposts Magazine has started a site called www.ourprayer.org  The purpose is to form online faith communities and connections so that all of us will be strengthened and helped by each other.  I’ll be seeing you there!      Â