Keeping in Touch

DEVOTION
EPHESIANS
KEEPING IN TOUCH
Eph 6:21-22
21 Tychicus, the dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you everything, so that you also may know how I am and what I am doing. 22 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage you.
NIV
I suppose I do not keep in touch with as many of my fellow believers as I should. I have to ask myself just exactly why I think that is. Am I do busy with my own life to be bothered by the life of others? Do I just not care about them? I don’t think those Christmas or New Year letters are much in the way of keeping in touch all they contain in a list of events in the senders life, without even a query about the receivers life, yet that is what Paul is doing here. Still I think the whole letter to the Ephesians was all about Paul’s interest in them and their lives in Christ. I think I should be keeping in touch with others along those lines. I wonder if just doing this devotion and sharing it on my blog is keeping in touch. Does that replace physical contact? I can’t be in contact with so many of the people I know and care about. Is facebook enough? Is my blog enough? I am not sure that is how the spirit of this idea is accomplished. But in a certain sense of the word I suppose it is. People are able to know what is going on in my life, maybe not all the physical things, but surely in my spirit, my real being. And I am expressing my care for those who read my devotions in the sense of maybe my times with the Lord and the thoughts he guides me in, might in some way encourage and enhance their lives in Christ. But is that keeping in touch? I hope it is. Do I excuse myself from actually being and spending time with them? Maybe they are just as busy with their living life as I am and in this social climate of today we people are just that way. Maybe we all are just so involved with our own efforts of getting by and trying to live a life pleasing to God that all we can do is make an occasional connection with each other. I do often think about so many of the people I know and think a short prayer for them when they come to my mind, but that is not part of the keeping in touch I see here. I am not sure if anything will ever change about that either. So many are separated from me by so many miles this is the only of keeping in touch. Thos close in physical proximity, I do see and spend time with, at least the closest one. So I think I have to be content with what is at this point. I hope that is enough, I do what to encourage my friends. I do want to keep in touch.