| the name game |
[17 Jan 2004|01:48am] |
I spent almost the whole morning online e-mailing Ateneans who are part of genrev.net -- all 107 of them! And you guessed it right, I'm not even halfway through. I thought I could just save their e-mail addresses in my own address book and send a mass e-mail, but I found out that their addresses were hidden (at least I think they were). I can't seem to view them. So I had no other choice but to click on each their names and email them one by one to inform them about our weekly prayer sessions. It was tiring, alright. I'd have to admit that it even came to a point when I became rather annoyed by such a task.
But then I realized, maybe God really intended me to email all 107 of them one by one. He wanted me to look through each their profiles, see what they're like, and most importantly, find out what their real names are, so I could start the email by greeting them each by name. And then it came to me -- if someone I didn't know suddenly emailed me and called me by name, what would I feel? I might freak out, true. But more than that, I think I'd feel special in some way.
Personally, I feel kinda special when I bump into someone and he greets me with a, "Hey Roni!", especially when I know that that someone didn't even consider me a close friend. There's something mysterious about calling people by name.
And did you know that the Lord also calls each one of us by name?
"He counts the number of the stars and calls them all by name." (Psalm 147:4)
I dunno about you, but when I found out about this, I sure felt warm and fuzzy all over!!!
And so when I clicked on the 20th person on the list, I thought of how privileged I was to be given this task. I might be making someone feel fuzzily special at this very moment as he/she reads my email, and seeing that the message is addressed specially for him/her. There may be 87 more to go, but I don't care. I'm looking forward to remembering 87 more names after all! :-)
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