Periodically I find myself wondering if it’s wise to be sharing my neurotic musings about this wonderful yet crazy vocation journey with the blogosphere. Wise or not, I certainly wonder why it is I find it necessary to share them. The pattern I’m noticing is that this questioning usually occurs during a period of nonbloggbale thoughts, times when my feelings about this process are such a mismash (excited/scared/happy/nervous) that I find it hard to bring them from their place of swimming around in my head to keyboard and then screen. But then I usually remember why it was I started this blog in the first place: it was early in my discernment, and I’d been searching the internet for what seemed like ages looking for the “What should Susan do with her life” website, or at least the “How to go from boring bureaucrat to Catholic Sister in 10 days” website to no avail. And then it hit me …. I should share my experience on the odd chance that someone else stumbles upon it and finds it useful. (I know, I know, the Spirit at work).
That’s usually when I get an off-blog e-mail from someone who has been lurking here and wants me to know that my musings have helped them in their discernment or life. Sometimes it’s someone discerning religious life, but not always. Life experiences are really universal when you get down to it.
In any case, I’d like to thank the source of the e-mail who helped me in this way yesterday. Both the woman who wrote the note, and the Spirit who moved her.
Peace to you all. And no worries, I’m going to keep up this crazy blogging experiment. It’s quite obvious to me that’s the message I was meant to get from that e-mail yesterday.
3 comments:
I was talking to my clergyperson about blogging not too long ago, and we both agreed that it's really a ministry. So many of us are isolated, to one degree or another, in our faith walks and discernment paths. We all wind up helping one another.
True! Much of the heart of life experiences is universal. It's refreshing to hear honesty in discernment type writing. Keeping blogging :-)
And reading your blog is why I started .... b/c I didn't have that when I was discerning ... and it might be helpful to hear someone a tiny bit further along. And now it's got me being the teen blogger for our community -- look what you started!
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