Hallmark moments

Being by yourself all the time can get challenging.  Sometimes, I get bored.

Bored caused me to flip on the TV.  The movie on TCM isn't one of my favorites.  So I started flipping channels and for some inexplicable reason, I landed on the Hallmark channel.  I watched it for about five minutes, then shaved, got in the shower, and then went downstairs for breakfast.

They have Texas-shaped waffles here.  I just found that out today.

As part of a day that I'm having that's gonna be weird, I glanced at the TV and there it was, right on the Hallmark channel; the car with the Oregon license plates.  You can't miss that silly tree in the middle. 

The premise of this little chestnut is that the girl dated the famous athlete who broke her heart.  She got hurt bad and then she meets famous guy who is kinda hiding his identity.  He's trying to tell her who he is, but she's so hung up on the hurt of the past, she's unwilling to allow herself to be in love with him because she's so worried what happened before to her will happen again.

If this story sounds kinda familiar, let me take you back to a fall Saturday morning in my life where I told the right one I was unwilling to go any further in our relationship because I'd been through a bad experience with someone else and wasn't willing to do it again.

I'm sure this movie will have a happy ending, after all it's the Hallmark channel.  And I think there's a big life lesson in this sappy little love story.  We do put the hurts of the past on people sometimes.  As for me, I didn't know any better because I was selfish.  I would come to find out over the ensuing almost six years now that, for everything she is, the person I said those words to is nothing like the person I put the bad things of the past on.

For all the stupid things I've done, that one rates right up at or near the top!

Sometimes, life hurts.  It's a reminder of a bad decision, made in haste, and without consultation with God, who is running the show these days. I kinda mentioned that the other day; the smart thing to do would have been to ask the Lord what HE wanted to do.

BTW, this movie is set in Portland.  Gotta see the humor in that.

We serve a God who forgives mistakes.  We serve a God that gives second chances and with Him in control, everything is possible. 

Everything.

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