Kirkepiscatoid

Many of you that follow MadPriest's blog also know that a big canine friend of ours there, Grendel, had The Last Day. In watching the blogosphere grieve for Grendel and with Aghaveagh, Grendel has taught me a wonderful lesson, a lesson in which I was trying to sort out in an earlier post.

It dawned on me when I was fighting back big ol' tears for a dog I never met. If I can believe in the power of a dog on the blogosphere, why is it such a stretch to believe in Heaven at times?

So many of us, when we entered the blogosphere, we entered it with the cloak of a certain degree of anonymity. We wanted to say what was in our hearts from a safe, shadowy shelter. But as many of us start to get to know the various monikers, whether we ever "really" learn who they are as real people or not, we end up making blogfriends that in some ways are more attuned, more connected to the "real us" because we had the shelter of semi-anonymity. So, in some ways, our blogfriends see the deeper, truer parts of us...more than the "real" people in our lives.

There is a lesson in that. We all need to go forth on some days with the parts of ourselves we show fearlessly on our blogs. Thank you, Grendel, for reminding me of that lesson. Thanks be to God, allelluia, and amen!