Just a note of gratitude for all the comments to my posts. . .

I am thrilled every time I go on my website to write another post because I take that opportunity to read comments readers have made on previous posts.  I feel really blessed because so many of you are writing to me.  And a number of you have written a few times.  I had no idea that would happen, I guess, but it’s a great honor to be connected to you in this way.  First, it’s wonderful that you have taken the time out of your busy lives to read the posts but then taking the time to comment too simply astounds me.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Writing is a fairly solitary pursuit.  Just me and my Higher Power who “prompts” what I say as though we are One.  But then knowing  I have readers convinces me we are all part of a community, and not an “accidental” community.

I guess I want to stretch this idea into a full-sized post because of the broader meaning contained within this connection we are making.  Your comments and how they honor me is the kind of interaction that helps to heal the planet, from my perspective.  Knowing that we have a “witness” to our ideas makes the expression of them so much more meaningful.  But we don’t need a blog post to initiate this kind of activity.  We can make the connection with each other within every encounter we have.  And should.  I have shared this idea in some form in previous posts.  I think “our real work” in this life is to look one another in the eye and pay homage to one another’s humanity.  There is no greater gift we can offer another soul than rapt attention, in the moment. One another’s existence is holy and definitely intentional to whom ever is present to it.

This isn’t a lofty idea.  It’s a basically simple one.  It means wherever I am, I need to notice you.  And vice versa.  We aren’t crossing paths coincidentally.  We may not even know in that moment why we have connected, but in due time we will.  This is similar to the idea at the core of the book: The Five People You Meet In Heaven. You may not understand the importance of your meeting until a much later time but no meeting is accidental.  What a thrilling idea.  Wouldn’t you agree?  It eliminates the uncertainty about this journey we are making.  It will turn out as it should.  We will meet who we should.  We will learn what we should.  It has been determined already.

Go in peace.  And rejoice that this is so.