Love Letters from God

Today, I’m posting for the first time for Wendy’s Love Letters from God blog. The idea is explained in more detail over on the blog but basically at each new moon people contribute posts in celebration of the moments of grace that have touched our lives over the past month (moon).

For me two things stand out, and the first is related to this blog. I started writing it exactly two weeks ago tomorrow, with the thought that writing about spirituality, friendship and community would help me cultivate those things more seriously in my life while sharing my ideas with anyone who might be interested.

I started running some searches for other blogs on similar topics (one of which turned out to be Wendy’s). I wanted to feel I was not alone in blogging about such peculiar things, and to start some conversations. It’s been fun chasing down links from one blog to the next, and collecting knowledge along the way. I wanted especially to connect with others who share my belief that we can find and celebrate sacred moments in ordinary everyday life. And I’ve felt absolutely blessed by the breadth, depth, intelligence, wit and sheer poetry of so much of the writing I’ve found.

I feel as if in reading blogs by people who take spiritual and religious belief and practice seriously, I have a daily support system to lean on and that will also challenge me.

So thanks to everyone in the spiritual electronic community I’m discovering.

The second blessedness for me this month has been my brother’s recovery from a sudden illness. I write about it more fully in this post in my other blog. We often hear about the terrible things people do, but Philip’s illness showed me very clearly just how compassionate human beings can be.

So this has been a very blessed moon indeed.