
As I was walking this morning I thought about an email message that I had received a day ago from a friend that I had met a few months ago through her blog site. I haven't been posting anything here lately and she wrote to tell me that she had visited several times, hoping to find new musings, only to find that I had been absent. She wanted to let me know that I was missed and asked how I am doing. When we take the time to create and relate, it's nice to know that someone notices. Often it seems that what we do makes little or no ripple in the lives of others, that our work and our words drift out into vast space and float about aimlessly. A message like this one from my friend suddenly reminds us that we have significance, that we can be a channel of grace in the lives of others, even when we aren't aware of it. And that, after all, is what we are all searching for, isn't it?
So I'm thankful for my friend who, standing out among the hundreds of contacts I've made through the internet, took the time to let me know that my words and images have made some ripples in her life, enough to be missed when I didn't show up for a while. What a wonderful act of kindness.
Bless you, my friend. You're one in a million... :o)
