Bronwen, I loved reading your story, and loved to hear of you having an open mind not hanging on so tightly to your beliefs that you couldn't see the divine outside of your belief system. My own journey has reflected this and each religion has a similar core and they simply look at the whole thing of love - love for oneself and love for the people around us. I have been impressed by people from different religions exemplifying the virtues of compassion such as was taught by Jesus in ways that would put a lot of Christians to shame. The more we unite and let go of what we hold onto so dearly the more likely it is that we will come into a better understanding of the core of many faiths - compassion for ourselves and then others.