From what I understand the ‘blog architects’ are trying to add security to my blog site. As this is being done for some unknown reason I am not able to go to my normal blog site and write a blog. So I must email the newly written blog to my website where the ‘blog architects’ will post my blog.

So here goes nothing! If this blog appears on my website you will know it was a successful maneuver. If not, you’ll be none the wiser but I will be really depressed that I have gone to all this creative work and it was for naught. L

I started a blog and it is sitting at my blog site partially completed. Then the technology problems arose so I guess I’m going to have to start the whole process over again. That is too bad because I had some really clever and hilarious statements in my original blog. But because of senility I’m not able to recall them. I just hope clever and hilarious creativity returns as I write this blog.

I was going to share a spiritual experience I had this past December. You see I have been a Christian for longer than I can remember.  Let me explain.

When I was two years old my family and I were visiting the farm family that lived across the road from our farm home. Their father, Harold, was holding me as we stood in their front yard. It was night and the reflecting light from a huge full moon was flooding the yard.

Harold was teasing me as he said, “That’s my moon.”

Now I have no memory of this occurrence only what my Mother told me years later. She said I looked him square in the face and said, “No it’s not your moon it’s God’s moon!”

Now I was only two years old. How was I able to make a statement like that? I think my Christian ‘home schooling’ Mom was responsible for me being able to come up with that response. I thank her for her efforts, as she was responsible for introducing me to my Christian faith and nurturing it during my growing up years.

I’ll never regret being aware of and accepting God at such an early age. The only thing I regret in those early years was the enduring guilt that went along with my immature faith. Catholics liked rules back in those days. And there was sin and boy was it easy to commit. Venial sins just tarnished your soul however mortal sins sent you straight to Hell! And of course me being a perfectionist helped to magnify the sin issues.

As I grew I maintained a close spiritual relationship with God. Even when I went to college where many students became party animals which included drinking, drugs but definitely not church. What did I do? I joined the Newman Club on campus which is an organization affiliated with the Catholic Church.

A friend and I rose through the ranks of the organization. Finally I was elected President and my friend became the Secretary/Treasurer. We would have monthly meetings for Catholic students on campus and it became my job to write a monthly newsletter that we stuffed into the students’ mailboxes. Of the hundred or so Catholics on campus we would entice a half dozen to a dozen to our monthly meetings.

But I must make a confession about our involvement. Officers of the club had first dibs on living in the Newman Club house for the unbelievable price of $25 a month! So we took advantage of that opportunity for the last two years of our college careers. Was that a selfish act on our part? I’m not sure but I do feel better getting that fact confessed and off my chest in this blog. Relieving guilt is a good thing especially if one is a Catholic! J

After college I began my teaching career and continued my faith growing experiences. Teaching catechism, joining ecumenical Bible studies, attending retreats, lector during Mass, singing in the choir and attending church services in other denominations.

In 1980 I started to get serious about developing a writing career and it became natural that some of my writing would include my Christian background and beliefs.

Remember at the beginning of this blog I mentioned it was going to be about a December spiritual experience of mine? Well I think this will have to become a two-part blog.

My spiritual experience has to do with a Christian book I wrote several years ago and if I tried to tell you the whole story in this blog I’m afraid you may doze off or I may doze off typing it.

Also this will offer me the opportunity to see if emailing this blog to my website will allow for a successful post to my blog site.

In my next post I will share my December spiritual experience. If you can’t wait to hear the ‘rest of the story’ please don’t email me for any more information. Spend a few minutes on Facebook and you’ll soon forget all about it. J

Until next time.