TheDutch101

song starts at 2:20

hi, question how can I get access/that password to fellowship hall forums?

There ISN'T anything wrong with posting a selfie once in a while and sharing vacation pics online. Nothing wrong with using a selfie for a profile pic either. It's the obsessive posting that I'm trying to figure out. I have friends who are posting 4 or 5 times a day on FB and Twitter and one of them is using photoshopping apps to look younger while another posts 'Kardashian' type' stuff. Anything can become an obsession and I've now got friends that I never knew were so vain and full of themselves until I went back to FB after about a year. These aren't teenagers; they';re in their forties and one is over fifty. I'm trying my best to understand what's going on with them but, truthfully, I'm feeling less and less friendly toward them every time I go on FB. One first thing that seems clear to me is that the internet is one of the first big game changers. Or social media. Do people want to be seen? I guess so. But an obsession? Maybe? It might depend on the situation's they're in? - for example; someone posting things because he or she is not having much contact with friends, but that personen still wants some attention in a kind of way? I'm not sharing many photo's on FB, just occasionally, with the bigger events that are important to me. It's hard for me as well to see selfies as an obsession, and the reason why might differ from personen to person but could a lack of friends or attention-seeking be the case?

I´ve had one specific event that really suprised myself, and it´s the only one I can think of right now. May 2014 a small conference was held in a nearby village, named the REVIVE Conference, organised with people from the village, but joined by 6 or 8-ish people from YWAM Herrnhut (Germany) that were preparing for a new season, travelling through Europe. I went to that conference, just out of interest. Throughout that weekend I started to hear more about YWAM in general and about Herrnhut, that small Village in Eastern Germany where the 'Herrnhutters' come from. And that young people like me have the opportunity to commit 6 months to God, learning more about him, to get into a deeper relation with him, and later on, heading out 'into the Nations'. And those days and just a couple days after the weekend I couldn't get it out of my mind. That was a bit unusual for me. And soon after, just that same week I started to think..; "Hey, doing a DTS in Herrnhut, with YWAM.. Why not?". Very spontaneous and it doesn't happen very often, those kind of thoughts. I could'nt get it out of my mind and the same week I made the decision to just go there after my study was finished. (at that time finishing was one year ahead). The point is, it always takes me lots and lots of time to think about Big Topics like doing something, committing myself to something, the big decisions in life. And if that was the case, it would take time to think about something like that. But no, that did'nt happen. I felt like the Holy Spirit guided me to that conference, and after hearing more about YWAM and so on, I really wanted to go there! Take the step, not knowing what really lies ahead, but trusting in God and seeing where he wants me to go! I do have some other future plans, and I am (at least right now) not thinking of going to other YWAM bases or leading a DTS, I might just go back to my country and study something else. But I am happy I am going there, seeing what's in store for me and for others, and then seeing what's next. Never experienced something like this before, so I am sure that this was new. And a year has passed, and in September I'm heading off to Herrnhut, for a 6-month Revive DTS. I'm exited!

This one really striked me, it's beautiful. His other material as well! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjDTgCdOeQ

Still so good!