It happened at the County Seat retaurant in Powhatten,Virginia. For well over a year Pat and I have developed an online friendship with an amazing gal, fellow Christ Follower and single Mother of 5 children named Beth Brawley. I discovered her blog while visiting another blog of Nature writer Julie Zickefoose. Beth was working her way through some heavy life trauma and her authenticity and way of expressing herself gave me a lot of help and insight which I applied to the work I was doing with others going through some overwhelming life issues themselves. Before long we were emailing and I was hooking her up by email with a couple of them directly. Pat and I would both read and enjoy her writings........then the opportunity came..... to meet her and her family......... live and in person....... on our way to Virginia Beach. This was something new for us....we who have met and made friends....and family...... with numbers of people......were about to meet with someone we knew so well ....but whom we'd never met!!!
.........and then.....THERE THEY WERE....all 6 of them.....live and in person.......and we never stopped talking.....and we stayed up late....enjoying the JOY afforded to those of kindred Spirit...........
.....and laughed.....and learned.....and grew. You can read Beth's account of it all here.
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