Dear Alana:

Congratulations, my hat is off to you for moving to a new city alone, getting a job, then a better job, getting your own place- these are impressive achievements; I am impressed.

You asked: “How do you trust that there is love out there for you”? and “how can I grow more in it (your spiritual journey?”

I have a suggestion for the two questions and I will be developing it as I type: online dating. You live in a huge city, I just googled, says there are 2.72 million people in Chicago (2013). This means many thousands of single, available men exist in your city, and there must be a good number of those many thousands who are on a spiritual path compatible with yours. If you register in a respectable online dating site (I wonder if plenty of fish, one word, is still free of charge!) and put together a profile that clearly describes who you are and what you are looking for, and then, if you evaluate responses to your profile and read the profiles of others, you have the best chance to find a compatible partner.

This suggestion wouldn’t work out very well if you lived in a small town, or far from a large urban center, but Chicago affords you the opportunity to use online dating to come across the greatest number of men and with great selectiveness, smart strategy of evaluating, it may bring you love and a partner to share and enrich your shared and individual spiritual journey.

* Lots of people have a negative sentiment about online dating, but that is often, I believe, because of not using this resource effectively.

anita