It’s award season for Hollywood. And today I caught some excerpts of the SAG Awards we had on TiVo. As the camera panned across the audience I saw so many faces I recognized. When I watch celebrity-laden awards shows, I have this little contest in my head to see how quickly I can name the celebrity before their name is flashed onto the screen. I’m getting pretty good at it. 

Steve Carell! Jennifer Garner! Johnny Depp! Tina Fey! Jason Bateman! Michael C. Hall! 

Some of them I’ve seen only a dozen times, and some of them I’ve seen in literally thousands of images on screen, on the web, and at the Ralph’s check-out line. I’ve heard sound bites with their voices and watched them in countless movies and TV shows. And if someone said to me, “Hey, do you know that guy that plays the NBC executive in Thirty Rock?” I’d say, “Oh, yeah. Alec Baldwin. I know him.” 

I feel the same way with facebook sometimes. We’ve got all these “friends” on facebook – their little faces show up every time they write us, or record something about themselves on their wall, or post a new pic for us all to see. The tendency is to say, “Yeah – I know them.”

 Truth is: I don’t really know Alec Baldwin. And unfortunately, I don’t really know everyone I’m “friends” with on facebook.

 To be known is an important thing. To be able to share life with one another. Not just pics, thoughts and sound bites – but real life. Meals. Experiences. Perspectives. Conversations. Speaking honestly, listening carefully. Giving hugs, joining in laughter, and unashamedly sharing our highest joys and lowest disappointments.

 At Quest, we try to KNOW each other. Yes, we’ll ‘friend’ you on facebook. But we really want to know WHO you are and HOW you became the person you are.

 So come. Share your life. We can’t wait to know you.

~ by chris on January 26, 2010.