Dear Sisters in Christ,
Today I stopped into Faithprints, something I continue to do every couple of days. I am sad to say that the Administrator (Linda, I believe) is feeling very discouraged and frustrated by the overwhelmingly negative response to the recent site overhaul she made. It seems she put in many, many hours and a fair bit of her own money to design and maintain the site. She did it because she believed the changes would help expand the community there. She reports that she had nothing but negative emails complaining about the changes. I can only imagine how discouraging this must be for her - especially coming from other believers. However poorly the site re-design was executed, she deserves at least to be acknowledged for her ongoing - and sincere - efforts to maintain a Christian community on the web.
Though I did not directly complain to her, I certainly did not hide the fact (here, on this blog) that I was unhappy about losing my blog again. This was wrong of me and I repent of it. The commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour" means that we not only should not do anything to harm our neighbour's reputation, but more: we are to uphold and defend it. This I failed to do. For this reason, I have removed my very first post on this blog where I spoke unkindly about my unfortunate experience of losing my FP blog.
At this point I do not intend to move my blog again. I'm weary of moving around. I will, however, sign up at the new FP for the purpose of sending Linda a private message (something I miss and wish we had the ability to do here) to apologize and ask for her forgiveness, because Christians shouldn't treat one another so shabbily. Going forward I intend to include her and her Faithprints ministry in my prayers.
O Lord, have mercy on me and forgive me for failing to live up to your holy ideal. Cleanse my heart from selfishness, that I may do your will and be a blessing to others. In Jesus precious name. Amen
6 comments:
I'm proud of you.
I am also proud of you my dear sister in Christ, I will also pray for linda, and faithprints. I love you sweety.
Good for you, kiddo! I was only at Faithprints for 8 months so I didn't experience the other overhauls. And, I was able to archive everything before Faithprints started anew. So, I have nothing against the choices that were made. I just wanted something free, customize-able, and easier to use. Bloggers got bugs as well (especially between this beta version and IE7) but I think the spirit of your post is a good one. Leaving something or someone on good terms, at God's direction and/or in God's timing are WAY more important than any consideration of our own.
That is a great idea. I was feeling a little sad for the site. Afterall, it was the place our little family met. I went by and read Linda's post and it made me sad as well. I know the Lord is able to lift her up during this time. It seems as if there are quite a few "new" people joining over there, though. That's got to help.
You made a good point - Linda did put forth a lot of effort to try to expand the community and for that she should be applauded. I pray that she doesn't take our moves from faithprints elseware and I will continue to pray for her and the faithprints community. And like Debbie said, its where we all met and now we all moved over here, so I feel a little guilty too. But like Beth I wasn't there all that long, but what I did have there I liked. But I also have a lot of friends here on blogger and this is free...so it just worked out better for me here in the long run - plus I was able to use my own template and that makes me happy lol. Good post though my friend :)
I know what you mean. I sent her a letter and removed my angry comment from my page. Sorry to hear that it's not going well for Linda at Faithprints. THanks for letting us know.
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