These days, it feels if a big hand is moving me along in life, gently but a little too fast for my tastes. The coincidences that happen to me in great number are all blessings, and the nature of the graces that I receive shows me that somewhere, somehow, someone must love me tenderly.

Not that I can make any sense of it at the moment (that’s why I call them “coincidences”) but I’m sure it will all come together eventually. There is the grace of having two wonderful friends from England visiting me for most of this week, with their sprituality that is very different from my own now but that I found nourishing and inspiring. Then there is the grace of having a sudden and unexpected crush, with the warm and silly feelings that that involves. And the grace of a great job in a great place, and the challenge of not letting it completely take over my life and emotions.

I am grateful that all of the above are taking place in the real world. Most of my life seems to have happened on Facebook over the last month (or the last year?), and although I really like the fact that I am in touch with 400+ people through their status updates, it is also a little draining. Especially since it involves one of the five senses only.

Now that I am a little more rooted in the real world again, I am starting to realise how my other senses were craving attention. When had I last listened to real loud music? When had I touched someone not just by accident? When had I last been prayed over? When had I been blown away by someone’s anger and then again when they asked forgiveness? When has my heart last beat so loudly? It’s all happened in the course of just one week. And I feel so much more alive for it.

Thank you, God.

Photo: “come back to the real world” by Scarlet Rose from Flickr (Used under Creative Commons license)

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