Following along with Gwen Bell's the Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, the official question for today is:

Day 7: Blog Find of the Year?

Gwen words it this way: That gem of a blog you can't believe you didn't know about until this year.

Hands down the best (sort of) blog find of the year is the Three-Minute Retreat from Loyola Press. I wrote about it earlier this year, and it still holds the same place in my heart. I'm counting is as a blog because the writers and developers send us a new message every day.

My runner-up, newly discovered blogs include:

• Et Tu, Jen: Power, real stories that blow me away! I spend several days reading through all of the top posts (scroll down and click through on the conversion story and most popular posts... after equipping yourself with a box of tissues.
• The Anchoress: Funny, touching, witty. Some days it feels that she writes exactly what I'm thinking about current events.
• Smashing Magazine: So maybe it isn't really a blog. If it isn't, the Smashing folks know how to use RSS to gather regular readers (read: me!). Every post is worth reading.
• ReadWriteWeb: Can't believe I didn't start reading this excellent blog until this year. How did I survive?

(Just a note: I can hardly wait to write about tomorrow's topic.... ooiiieee, that's going to be fun! I hope that I can do it justice.)