Regaining your faith — with one ride on the Internet’s waves
Have you ever felt funky, been blue, or worried whether we’d all make it ’til tomorrow? I know I have. Now, I’m fortunate that I have lots of ways to levitate myself out of the spiritual lowlands. In case you’re looking for a new mood booster or method of spiritual rejuvination, I wanted to share a brief story from my life.
I wasn’t feeling hopeless. In fact, I’d just had a fantastic week–started new work, took the GRE for entry to graduate school, heard some awesome music on the radio (How Glad I Am by The Greyboy All Stars). Nonetheless, I was delightfully surprised to take an inspiring, hope-inducing surf of the net just because I was unsubscribing to a mailing list.
That goal of unsubscribing from a email list took me to the great social networking site, Zaadz.com. While going about my business, an ad for “WePluribus — We the people. No exceptions.” caught my eye. Cool people making conversation-starting t-shirts in an eco-friendly way. From the main WePluribus page I went to their blog where I read about Bishop Carlton Pearson (a man with an amazing life- and faith-changing story; I’ve heard his story on This American Life before–phenomenal!) and found out about an organization called Common Tables whose objective is to “establish 750,000 small dinner groups that overcome barriers, misconceptions, and fear-based thinking about diversity and inclusion to recognize one single truth – we have much more in common than we do in difference.”
Now I hadn’t intended to find any of these sites except Zaadz, but that’s what happened. And because it happened I found out about some really great folks doing good work in our world and I got an unexpected “happiness and hopefulness booster.” So I share this story for to remind us all of two things.
- There is ALWAYS and in all-ways some great stuff happening in this world.
- Being open to taking a path you hadn’t intended to follow can lead you right to the good stuff.
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