Ok now. I’ve really HAD IT! I opened an email a few days ago from a dear friend, whom I love & cherish. I would never want to intentionally hurt this person, but I’ve got to stop THIS MADDNESS. So please bear with me, & feel free to rant at me or in agreement with me. You know we all get those emails that have advice on life, cute little sayings & one-liners, pictures of kittens & puppies, faith building testimonies & pledges of eternal friendship, etc. Now I’ve got nothing against forwarded emails (when forwarded properly, minus everyone else’s email addresses deleted), I also enjoy the sweet stories, funny jokes and the cute fuzzy animal pictures. Hey I’m even guilty of passing these along to some of you as well. But you know what has broken the proverbial ‘camel’s back’? Here is a sample of what I got: “Do not keep this message. It must leave your hands in 20 MINUTES. Otherwise you will have the worst year of your life! Send this to at least 5 people and your life will improve. 1-4 people: Your life will improve slightly. 5-9 people: Your life will improve to your liking. 9-14 people: You will have at least 5 surprises in the next 3 weeks 15 and above: Your life will improve drastically and everything you ever dreamed of will come true.”Hello??? Are you seriously asking me to believe that if I send this email to 15 people, all my dreams will come true? Not only that, but you are THREATENING ME with the worst year of my life. (Thanks, but that was last year, anyway… damn, I must have not forwarded enough emails) WHATEVER! Then there are the emails that say, “If you are truly my friend you will send this back to me.” What is this? Guilt email? If you don’t forward it to the person who sent it and multiple other people, you supposedly don’t love the person who sent it. Here’s another favorite, (NOT!) “You now have two choices: 1. Delete this.. 2. Forward it to all the people you care about. You already know the choice I opted for.”And then there’s the one that questions my faith in God. “You’ll spend a minute forwarding countess jokes, but won’t forward this email. If you deny God, He will deny you.”
So to all my friends… I love you all. Truly, I do. I don’t feel like I should have to PROVE it by sending/forwarding/replying to chain emails. I am a Christian, & I don’t belief in luck, good or bad. My faith is in a Sovereign God, whom for the record, I also love, who is in control, so I need not fear your damning emails. If your email is cute, sweet & I think others will enjoy it, I will pass it on. And you’ll just have to TRUST ME on that. I will not succumb to evil threats of disaster.
My thought is, if you were truly my friend, as the email proclaims, you wouldn’t be threatening me, or guilt-trip me into saying as much to you. I would rather receive an email about you, what’s new in your life, what your dreams are, what your hoping for.
So, now the choice is yours. Be warned. I’ve had enough. The next threatening email I get, I will respond, but not in the way you might expect. After which, I suppose I’ll just be unlucky, unloved & denied by God. NOT!!!! LOL!!!! STOP THE MADDNESS! Or at least, take me out of the loop.
