Oh, Ruth! You actually brought me to tears. Gorgeous writing. I embraced Hinduism and adored Mira Bai and women saints as a young girl disenchanted with modern Reform Judaism. I asked my mother if I could become a nun because I wanted to marry God then and she said Jews didn’t have nuns. I adored the Gita and Upanishads, became a vegetarian, raptured in mystic poetry, meditation, yoga for yoking the soul to God and embraced anything that gave me a feeling of intimacy with the Divine. Of course my family was not particularly proud of this. In the early 1990’s I began writing for the Times of India’s Speaking Tree and later for its editor long after she left. So you brought back much of myself to me. And the beauty of devotion to God, service and values I cherished and that enabled me to survive an extremely difficult life. I’m grateful you’re such a gifted writer and look forward to reading more. 🙏🏽