The quest to not tell swiss cheese stories, and other things

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I love how God gets His point across to me.  I saw something that held a clue to some lingering questions from 2017.  I'm more committed than ever to letting God have control of my life, but sometimes I get busy and don't pay attention to what I ought.

I started listening to something a couple of days ago but it was a whopping 28 minutes long.  Ain't nobody got no time for no 28 minutes 'round hea'.  So, God, being God and understanding that I'm a work in progress found a way to condense what I needed into a 5 minute read, with a link to the 28 minute audio, just so I'd know there was something in there for me. 

I'm thinking making the 28 minutes might be a good idea so I'll probably plug the phone into the stereo and listen while I do other things. 

And, as not usual, I'm not telling.  It's not that I don't want to, it's just that it's intensely private at this point.

So on to other things.

I'm dating somebody.  She's my GF, but this is like no relationship I've ever had in my life.  She's the first girl I've dated more than twice that didn't need me for anything.  She has her job, her life, her own place.  She's recently made the choice for Jesus, which I mentioned the other day, and found her own church.  That makes my heart happy.  She's not crazy.  She's happy with who she is and she's in no particular hurry to jump into things. 

We're taking things slowly.

Slowly.

That's never happened to me before and I'm trying to adjust to it.

When life has been bat-crap crazy as it has for the last how many years, it's hard to adjust to normal, but I'm working on it.  I'm finding it easier to focus on things like my new job.  I have time and money is going to different places than it has in the past.  Those are good things.  Being on nights again this month helps cushion a green bank account balance.  My pets are appreciating some time, and the house has been full of people for parties and celebrations over the holidays.

I enjoy those things.

I've had the third degree by her very protective siblings and an auntie.  I think that's cool.  That, I think goes along with normal.  The GF is a sweet spirit. And independent.  And happy with who she is.  I like that.  And I like it that we're hanging out, or doing stuff like going to the movies, or lunch at the home of friends.

You know, things that normal people do.

So I've come to understand that this new season I'm in is a period of transition from the old one to the next one.  And one of the key things in this season, is back to what I started out with....letting God have control.

I'm all kinds of surrendered these days.  Seems like a wise thing to do.

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