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<\/a>It\u2019s time for me to write about this blog and how it started and how it has continued. I have written on two previous occasions about \u201cminor miracles,\u201d one involving my father\u2019s final days<\/a> and one involving my beloved bride.<\/a> (There are several more Katie mm\u2019s I could recount, and I probably will before my blogging days are done.)<\/a>I was goaded into this post by Mary P., whose second comment on my St. Paul post of yesterday<\/a> was too provocative to pass up.<\/p>\n
In her first comment Mary began with St. Paul: It\u2019s not like he got a book of instructions. . . . How do those of us waiting for that lightning strike figure out if something is God\u2019s will? I\u2019ve taken it to mean if you\u2019re drawn to something, such as a particular action, but that action looks really challenging, but you can\u2019t seem to get it off your mind, then God is probably calling you to do it. If you\u2019re wrong, then God will make it pretty clear.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
In her second comment Mary wrote about this blog: You thought or heard or dreamed or SOMETHING and that started it. Your intention was different than what it is now. That doesn\u2019t mean you didn\u2019t or aren\u2019t doing what God wanted\/wants you to do, just because you thought you were doing it for another reason! Am I right that you hesitated when you realize the blog was morphing? Please understand I\u2019m not picking on you, but you are the obvious example. The blog grew, and you began to see that it was having an effect on people that you never conceived when you started. Then Frank came onboard (did you think that was an accident? Not me!), and look at it now!<\/i><\/p>\n
So, the bolt of lightning . . . or maybe . . .<\/p>\n
Chapter 1 \u2014 The Breeze<\/b><\/i>
I was in Maine with Katie in August, pretty much as you see me in the picture at the top of this post, a picture Katie took from her kayak. Yeah\u2014relaxed, happy, open.<\/p>\n
I had been thinking about starting a blog for my memoirs business. No techie myself, I had heard from a friend how easy it is to start a blog. So one day I logged on to Blogger.com and started Memoirs Unlimited<\/a>, the blog. Clickers will find that there are all of 5 posts at that site, versus 280-some-odd posts and counting at YIM Catholic. Does that tell you something?<\/p>\n Back in the spring, I had been in touch with an old college friend, who I wrote about here<\/a>. He\u2019s #5 and #13 on the list. My friend asked me why I had converted and I had no ready answer. But being a writer I promised him I would write him some short essays about my conversion experience. Which I did, for his eyes only.<\/p>\n
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