Dear Loving Friends,
Hope everybody had a nice holiday season with Christmas & New Year celebrations,
with the family and friends, enjoying the love and peace that the Baby Jesus brought.
Let us now keep the spirit till the end of the year.
As we enter the new year, I just thought of sharing something about our "Joynet".
It has grown to a very strong, loving, caring, supporting, global family . . . Praise
God for this wonderful gift. Many good initiatives are coming out from and through the
Joynet.
I would like to sincerely appreciate and thank the administrative team behind it,
for the incredibly wonderful job they are doing behind the scene]]] May the good Lord
reward you with His choicest blessings. Also I salute the Joynet Service team.
SOME OBSERVATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
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*NEW MEMBERS As we have already grown to a big number, it is very important to keep
the warmth of love never going down. There had been an introduction of the new members
to the group as they used to join the joynet. But now a days (for a long time) it is
not seen. The number of members is simply said to have increased. That is bad, because
we become impersonal. I know, it is difficult to do BUT it is essential for many
reasons: they must feel welcome, the other members can write to them a welcome note in
person etc. We should get help from some of the members to do that and definitely
revive the system of introducing and welcoming the new members as they join.
So also, new members, please send a mail about yourself to the whole group so
that the ice may be broken and the love may flow easily. We all love to hear from you.
*AUTHENTICATION: When we write a mail to joynet know that it is going to over a 1000
people. So let us be very diligent in what and how we write. One of the important
thing is to give the name and id of the writer. Most of the times the mails may need
only a personal reply. But without the id of the person, the reply goes to all the
members, thus un necessarily increasing the number of mails. SO whenever we write a
mail to Joynet, I would suggest that we sign it with our name, nation and the e-mail
id.
* CLARITY & BREVITY: again as we are writing to a very large group let us think and
pray twice before we type the mail. Try to make the message as short as possible, and
as clear as possible. Short and sweet are the best; we all are very busy with so many
mails to handle - official, personal, from other mail groups etc.
* PERSONALIZE: Let us try to make our mails as personal as possible. What I mean is to
avoid simply forwarding mails from other sites or groups. Give importance to our
personal reflections and the messages that we get from our personal prayer,
reflections etc. No chain mails of any sort, or copying from some books or site etc.
Unless it is so important and truly inspired by the Lord, please do not forward any
mails to Joynet.
* FAMILY SPIRIT: Since we are a family let us keep that spirit of mutual love and
respect. Let us share more the happenings of our family with this wider family. Above
all let us make Joynet a family of prayer. So also let us encourage any and every new
initiative by our members. It is in the family that one gets the opportunity to grow.
Let us all make it a point to be givers and not only receivers, i.e.; let us all begin
to share something.
I think I myself have gone too long. But that is because I am writing on a policy
basis. Please pray for all the Joynetters and continue to build this family of JOY.
Fr. Thomas Tharayil
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Joynet Pastoral Team
USA
USA
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