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I have recently switched to using a gmail account for all of my email needs. I love it--have you looked at it? It's completely intuitve, the help is great for the things you cannot intuit and so very user friendly. It does the things you've always wished an email client to do.

I have been ranting to my friends the last couple of days about the shooting stars I've been seeing.

I spoke in another post, Beautiful Fall Day, about praying in the backyard. I've kept it up for 6 weeks now. I am amazed at the power of praying just a few minutes at a go but with complete focus and praise and gratitude. My heart has opened up.

Night before last I was out there and I began asking God if he could see me, right then, standing in my backyard. I know he "sees" me and I know he "listens" to me--I just never really personalized it. With my question, that's what I was doing--did he look and see me standing there in my flannel PJs barefoot and tired praying my prayer. As I opened my eyes in finishing, I saw a shooting star. My only response was, "I love you too, God. Good night."

Then comes last night. I had just come from having dinner with a dear friend and was feeling just a little lonely at having left good company. So, I began by asking God to please connect to me, to really be there with me--and what did I see as soon as those words were out of my mouth? Another shooting star--this time I giggled in absolute delight and said, "Thank you, I love you too."

God is so good to me. I am so riddled with un-love and selfishness and still he shows himself to me--he caresses my cheek with his breath on a wind and looks right at me from a shooting star. I am precious to him--in all of my messy-ness. Praise God and thank you, Jesus.