Post #63

Well, I got to 63 posts before I blogged about Love.
No,uh uh...not the real kind, (God) love.
Stupid love, human love. Boy/girl sh*t.
My gurl has issues.
We have been friends for over 40 years; off and on but by now we resemble sisters. More times than none we disagree and will fight continually, creating a lapse where we don't talk or write. But we love one another.
Her experiences with LOVE have been plentiful, but frighteningly painful to say the least.
She trusts no more; male or female.
She lives (only) for her one grandchild and folds Life into the center of a lace handkerchief where she wears it stuffed at the end of her sleeve.
About 2 months ago she had her teeth fixed.
The cost of dental work is about the cost of a new Benz now, but nevertheless, she sat in the chair. Well, while dining one night, and probably after a few sips of wine, she eats, showers and proceeds to "wash her teeth" and notices they are not there. Frantically she backtracks.
Well, Spinelli's or Puglise's or Cataverrro's Sanitation has them now, guaranteed.
They clatter somewhere in the wastelands of garbage.
On the bottom of some heap.
Tears, fear and four hundred dollars later, my gurl is now on dental house arrest.
So here is where my attitude drops in...
We have a mutual male friend who has returned to the community.
He and she go farther back then I do.
But because she has no bottom teeth she will not be seen in public.
Well the fight is, after all these years, finally, there is a friend who is safe, kind, loving, knowledgeable, entertaining, financially stable, virile and looking good at 60 something who finds her to be a beautiful mature woman and she can't get with the program.
I heard on the radio the other day a quote from a woman who has experienced a similar Life.
She said: ( paraphrased) "Altho Life has treated you unkindly with Love, it is important to forgive, forget and LOVE again".
I can't tell you how hard I cried when I heard this.
I damn near had to pull off the road.
As I have told you , I say "...for those of you who know me".
My son, says "I digress."
But my then husband says it all... " It is what it is".
And it is what it is.
I wish she would just thank you GOD for today.
Enjoy the beauty of being; the bigness of who you are.
The blessings of being able.
Accessible, believable, credible, delectable, eligible, flexible, lovable, manageable, permissible. The list goes on.
Just think how BIG GOD is.
How Infinite He is and all He has for us.
This small "get dressed and go out with an old friend" is so small in comparison to what GOD has Planned for us.
Everything doesn't have to be complex.
Life can be simple.
Simply Life.
Take the joys of today and savor them for we are not promised tomorrow.
God will make sure your Plan is complete if you stop whining, get out of HIS way and let Him do.
You cannot Plan your own way.
You shouldn't wish to; for all the collective and brightest ideas we have could not light up the sky as beautiful as GOD can.
The very thing you oppose may be your portal to complete joy.
It may be your way back, back to where you were supposed to be from the beginning.
Nor can you wallow in yesterday.
Yesterday is gone and tomorrow may bring a better yesterday than one could ever imagine.
You know?
Those things are UB's...UNBELIEVABLE BLESSINGS.
Count yours.
Live simple.
and enjoy.
-Christian