Hello Vicki,

I have just read the preface and four or five of the essays. I have been reading your blog for some time now and always found them to be filled with honest, raw insights into your life—and LIFE itself. But, I must say, my previous reading did not prepare me for your pieces in “The Lotus in the Mud.” I read these first few and then realized why you used your wise words to suggest to us readers that we read them in meditative silence. Believe me that is what I’ll do from now on. I plan to re-read and then read the rest just in the way you suggest.

Obviously this writing came to you and out of you from the deep silence where the Holy resides. I relish taking an essay every day or so and sitting with it in the silence. That’s how the words came to you; that is how the words will find my soul. God speaking to me through you.

Thank you so very much for sharing your talent in this fashion.

Blessings and Peace be to you my friend,

D. in Canada