On Spiritual Blogging

I remember a night in May of 2007, the children were already asleep and I was looking for something in the basement. The lyrics of a favorite song were going through my head and it suddenly occurred to me that Tim McGraw's song "Live Like You are Dying" is really about the mid-life crisis; the observation that there is a stage when we want to give  our life a new direction and new spiritual meaning. As I had the insight I thought that I could share it with others. Around that time a colleague of mine had mentioned "blogging", an expression that I had heard for the first time. So I sat down, followed google's easy instruction to get started and after half an hour I had created my first blog. It had the intention to write a note at least once every month and I actually managed to keep that commitment in the following years. Later, I aimed for one note each week, while in the meantime, we publish a note about every other day.

Today is a special day for the blog ZeitgeistinMA: this is the 1000th note, and with an overall viewership well in excess of 20 000, every note seems to have reached on average 20 people. Isn't that amazing? Well, thanks for your interest and thanks to my co-author Su Zhen who has added amazing spiritual insights since joining this effort about a year ago.  I have no idea what the future of blogging is or whether by now new mediums are gaining traction. All I know is that you too have a message that needs to be heard and needs to be shared. Your medium of communication is waiting for you, as are your viewers, listeners and friends. "Zeitgeist" is German and stands for "spirit of our time". So I encourage you to use the little spark we are providing and turn it into a blazing light for others. "Leben is Weitergeben" is my mother's favorite quote - Living is giving! Try to make this motto your own and experience the magic of sharing for yourself. It is a lot of fun and full of meaning.