I agree, Kym. Video calls are never as great as in-person meetings, but they are the next best thing. 🙂 And I also relate to retiring from homeschooling. When my last child graduated, it was so exciting to be finished, but also anticlimactic for me to end that long and important season of my life.

Yes, I am so grateful for Zoom groups. I’ve met some amazing people in the digital world that leave real-life impressions on me!

Thanks, Lisa. Isn’t it amazing that we actually can meet with people all over the world? I still find it astounding. 🙂

Lisa, I can’t be sure when we connected so well as writers for Rest Ministries. I belonged to the group for some years before someone said I ‘should’ write devotionals for the site. Stunned, having never written a devotional, it was the very next day the suggestion came to me that I had an experience out walking that I was recording in my journal. A light bulb went on. “I think I just wrote a devotional! Perhaps my whole journal is a devotional!!” That spurred me on to submit a couple of devotionals and the rest is history, as the saying goes. That step was in 2008 so we have wrapped up some years ‘together’.

So true!

Thanks, Paula. I’m always a yes to Krispy Kreme donuts! 🙂

I’m glad you have opportunities too to make friends all over the world, especially with limited in-person opportunities. It’s such a gift, isn’t it? It’s surprised me how valuable our online connections truly are! Thanks for sharing here, Erin.