{"id":255,"date":"2012-08-29T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/insweetcompany\/?p=255"},"modified":"2012-08-29T11:50:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:50:03","slug":"in-sweet-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/insweetcompany\/2012\/08\/in-sweet-company.html","title":{"rendered":"In Sweet Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing to an invisible audience, sweeping your heart out into a boundless Universe not knowing who is listening to it beat or whether the thump will be embraced or cast aside, is a courageous act. Fortunately for me, at some point during the writing of my last book, <em>In Sweet Company: Conversations With Extraordinary Women About Living A Spiritual Life<\/em> (Jossey Bass), I became aware of an invisible listening presence around me, a group of like-minded souls who urged me onward and supported me as I wrote. This was no <em>woo-woo<\/em> affair. No visions or voices or sugarplums danced round my head but rather a subtle embrace that nested beneath my conscious awareness. Then one day, a few months after <em>ISC <\/em>was published, I was in Houston giving a workshop based on the book and I suddenly became aware I was meeting \u2013 and would continue to meet\u2014those who, on a soul level, had been helping me birth this book. I was, nor had I ever been, nor would I ever be, alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, I have met my \u201cposse\u201d at conferences, in workshops I\u2019ve led, in bookstores, via my website, email, and e-newsletter, on Facebook and through this blog. Knowing you are out there has made it very easy to write to an invisible audience because, on the deepest level, I <em>see<\/em> you \u2013 and I know you <em>see<\/em> me. I have blogged about things that help to develop this kind of relationship with and confidence in the Unseen for I believe putting ourselves out there in this crazy world really <em>is<\/em> a courageous act &#8212; whether we are a writer or not. We all need to know we are heard. We all need to know we are loved. We all need to make a contribution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thus, in this my last blog for Beliefnet.com, I want to thank you for reading what I wrote \u2013 for your comments, for the smiles that cross your faces and the nods of your heads that occur when something I write resonates with you. I have a wonderful new book I am putting the finishing touches on, and a million other thoughts that will surely stream through my e- newsletter to share with you. Should you want to keep in touch, please email me at <a href=\"mailto:Margaret.Wolff@sbcglobal.net\">Margaret.Wolff@sbcglobal.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing to an invisible audience, sweeping your heart out into a boundless Universe not knowing who is listening to it beat or whether the thump will be embraced or cast aside, is a courageous act. 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