Divine Encounters

It has been a mostly quiet time for writing over the last two years. I don’t know if it’s me or the topic, but most people don’t ask me about it. “How is the book coming?” “What is it like to be writing a book about a person’s spiritual path?” “How are you?” “How has this process affected you?” Nope, I don’t hear those questions. So I just keep going quietly and yet, with the book actually being so close to being an actual book, I’m anticipating some kind of change to that quietness.

Someone, somewhere might be interested. The other day I was talking to a stranger on the phone about his web design business. His operation was much too big for what I was looking for, and his clients are fairly complex businesses. He was nice, though, and as we were getting ready to say goodbye, he asked, “So, what is your book about?” The question took me back since I so rarely hear it, and I told him it was about encountering one’s spirituality in everyday life, not just church or religion. There was a brief silence. Now this silence is something I have heard before, since this is a topic people generally don’t jump on, and it can catch people with nothing to say.

But his silence was followed by, “Really? I was just talking to my mother about this yesterday. I’m not a real religious guy, but I know there’s something there, just don’t know what it is or how to get it.”

It was as if this was the sweet message I needed to hear to keep me going. Wasn’t it encouraging and supportive to hear this above all the anticipation and questioning I’ve been feeling? I write about this in the book, so I need to keep my own understanding of these moments open to feeling Divine presence.