God is Nigh.

I love the mornings where you wake up with joy and anticipation on your heart.  Those moments are the moments where you know, with absolute certainty, how close God is.  You can feel him working on your heart.  This evening, the hubs and I are headed to Murfreesboro to participate in a Taize worship service.  Some of the guys that were on the Haiti trip with me have put this together as a special service centered on praying for our Haitian friends and our partnership with them.  If you are unfamiliar with Taize, here is the website for the community. 
I have also been making contact with potential spiritual directors.  It is a little overwhelming reaching out to complete strangers asking them to meet with me about basically being a spiritual counselor.  They are older members of our faith community, not from our home church, who can help you with discernment of our place in our journey.  Some of them are priests, some are priests' spouses and some are just active members of a parish.  That has been a particularly overwhelming activity recently.  But, I'm really looking forward to having someone to speak with regularly about the mess that lives in my head.
Today, I'm grateful for beautiful weather, knowing that there is food in our (clean!!!) house, my sweet, loving husband, a nation where we are free to worship our God, and friends near and wide.
It's in the small things, small moments that we can really feel God's presence.