Signs of Faith

"You know that the work of the conclave is to give a bishop to Rome. It seems as if my brother cardinals went to find him from the end of the earth." — Pope Francis, (from Argentina) addressing the crowd in St. Peter's Square.

I'm not quite sure if I've ever mentioned in this blog that I am Catholic. I know I've talked a lot about spirituality and God, but maybe never mentioned my religion. If I didn't mention it I may have done so on purpose. 

I know that people have all kinds of different feelings and perceptions about religion (and politics!) and other topics and I don't want to insert certain "hot button" issues into this blog because I want people to feel open to reading it and not turned off by something with which they may vehemently disagree. 

After all, it's really a blog about me wanting to get married and have a biological child of my own at a late stage in life. But just the nature of that last sentence has, to me, miracle written all over it, so faith has to be a part of what this journey is about for me.

Let me put it this way, it would be impossible for me to write about what my hopes and dreams are if I didn't talk at times about God and my belief in Him and the ability of miracles, through faith, to manifest in my life! 

But I guess I'm just trying to say that I never want someone reading this blog to feel like I'm preaching or shoving my beliefs down their throat. I just want to testify to what my journey is - and, like I said, that journey does have a lot of God in it! 

But the reason I bring up my Catholicism now is because it is the basis, the foundation, of my belief system. Do I agree with every single aspect of my religion? In truth, probably not, but I didn't ever agree with every aspect of what my wonderful and loving mother and father taught me either, but they still molded me into the kind of person I feel happy to have become! : )

Anyway, yesterday, March 13, 2013, my Church selected a new Pope to lead our religion. For Catholics (and maybe even some others) it was a big deal; an exciting, joyful time to be witness to. 

But the real reason I think I wrote this post is that as one who looks for signs (and you know by now how big a sign-watcher I am!) I can't help but feel that this image, of a cloud captured in photographs on the day of the selection of the new Catholic Pope, Pope Francis, definitely spoke to me as a sign from God that, yes, He was pleased with how things had turned out. I know I was...