In short… I lied. If you want to read more you can, but that is it. Father God forgive me.
From the moment I hit the create account button on Facebook for my daughter, it hasn’t felt right. Not because of the content, or the time she would spend on it. I am very involved with her online activity, and monitor just about everything. She is 11 after all… Oh there it is… You have to be 13 to have a Facebook account.
In all the talks of integrity and not lying I have had with my daughter… Dang it…
I have no excuses or justification for it. I have no moral high ground to stand on. I messed up and I lied…
So now I have to do something that is going to be incredibly hard, but something that needs to be done. I will have to tell my daughter, Daddy messed up… Nothing she did wrong, or is doing wrong. 100% not her. This is all on me. We will have to deactivate her account.
It is going to crush her…Ugh…
In the spirit of fairness though, I will walk away from my Facebook account also. Not as punishment per say, Lord knows I have had enough Anguish since I created the account, and more so since this morning when a brother confronted me. (For the first time I called my Father-In-Law brother today). This will be my way of saying to my daughter, Dad has to be accountable for his mistakes also.
So after we have a talk this afternoon and deactivate her Facebook, I am going to let her hit the deactivate button on my Facebook account.
So well See ya… You can find me here on the Blog… The old Voice TeleGraph works also…
P.S. the post I linked with the word Anguish may be one of the best blog posts I have ever read. Take a look.
gchyayles
/ February 4, 2011Hi brother Carl
I’ve seen your comments on common blog friends’ posts (Michelle, Ric, Darla etc.) but have never made my way here until now.
I just wanted to say praise God for your humility and obedience.
I quit facebook several months ago. For a different reason of course but completely based on obedience to God; not because I really wanted to. It’s proved to be a blessing in so many ways I couldn’t begin to write them all down.
So I say all that to say I pray your daughter will receive your wisdom and humility with kindness and love; and most of all that she sees Jesus in your every word and action during that conversation. That she would learn through your example what it really means to love, forgive, humble ourselves etc. as Jesus did.
I suspect that over the next few months God may reveal another purpose for removing you from facebook
Be ready!
God bless!
ckroboth
/ February 4, 2011Thanks for stopping by.
Good news is, yes she is disappointed, but she doesn’t hate me. She took it better than I did.
Peace
Toby
/ February 21, 2011First of all, I’ll miss ya bro! I guess I’ll have to start paying attention to twitter again?
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It’s only 2 years, right? I’ll be there
Secondly, that post you linked to……I really thought it was the best I had ever written, but doubted, very seriously, anyone else would feel that.
Today will be a rough day……thanks for lifting my spirits before the negativity began.
Peace!
ckroboth
/ February 21, 2011Brother you don’t know how much your honesty with your feelings on Ria’s deployment lifts me up.
Yeah.. Twitter is there, and I will always be here.
Peace