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LET GO AND LET GOD!!

otherwise called stop trying to help God...

I know I'm guilty of trying to 'help God' in a lot of areas in my life. A friend of mine visited yesterday and as we gisted she reminded me of the freedom, peace and trust that comes from completely relying on God. The business of trying to 'help' God is not the easiest thing in the world, its very hard!!

Cause you have to constantly think up and rethink up stuff when the plans go awry and the like.Now, I'm not advocating that we all just sit down and relax and 'let God sort us out', we have to get on with what He's called us to do.. I got sent this poem in Uni and I think it explains better the stuff I'm trying to pass across. I'm not entirely sure you wrote the poem (someone said Lauretta Burns)

As children bring their broken toys

with tears for us to mend,

I brought my broken dreams to God,

because He was my friend.

But then, instead of leaving Him,

in peace, to work alone;

I hung around and tried to help,

with ways that were my own.

At last, I snatched them back and cried,

"How can you be so slow?"

"My child," He said,

"What could I do?

You never did let go."

Like I said, its not the easy to 'help God' but its even harder to let go of the reins and trust in His divine plan for your life; to trust that He loves you too much to let you fail; to trust that He will never leave you or abandon you. But I choose to surrender everything and let Him do His perfect work in me.....

One of those mornings

This morning was one of those mornings.....

The one where you think you set your alarm to snooze for 10 minutes,

only to wake up an hour and 30 minutes later

to find out that you had actually turned it off....

The one where your toilet flusher,

which a plumber had come a week earlier to repair,

decides to spoil again,

and you spend an extra 10 minutes in the bathroom trying to temporarily fix it....

The one where you change your mind about what to wear to work twice

and end up wearing what you had picked up to wear in the first instance..

The one where you do not prepare for work the night before

by packing up your bag and making lunch

so you end up shoving everything in your bag

including two slices of bread

and dashing out to catch the bus...

The one where you’re relieved you got to the bus stop on time

and then reach into your bag to get your bus pass,

only to find that you forgot to put it in your bag along with your coin purse..

The one where you dash back to the house,

dash being an understatement, since you had decided to wear a pencil skirt

and hence you can’t actually dash,

to try and pick up your bus pass in the hopes of still meeting the bus...

The one where the bus passes as you are just on your way back...

The one where you decide to wait for the next bus due in 10 minutes...

The one where the bus does not show up...

The one where you finally get on the bus 30 minutes later

to find out you have to stand because the bus is full with school children...

The one where you’re still determined to have a good day despite the crappy morning you’ve had...

Matchmaking: To agree or not to agree???

So I'm chatting with a new friend of mine and she asks those dreaded words, that gives me shivers, 'are you single?'

I freeze.... and no folks, its not what you think, I don't dread it cause I have to answer yes to the question, I am single and although I do get the occasional bouts of loneliness, I have come to enjoy and appreciate this stage of my life, knowing that when it ends, I'll probably look back and miss it.

Where was I? I froze cause matchmaking makes me cringe... the thought terrifies me; it along with internet dating and guys 'chasing' me aggressively causes me to break out in hives.. It just makes me feel like I've been set up and everyone including him, knows!!! I'm from the school of thought that believes that things between me and my significant other, wherever he may be, will happen naturally, (although at the same time it may result in someone coming to visit you, not talking to you and then eating all your food, and then letting you pay for the taxis........that my friends, is a gist for another day).

I understand, and people tell me all the time, that you have to keep all channels open, and that you never know where 'the one' ( I put it in parenthesis because I don't believe that there is any one person in the whole wide world for you to marry) will come from. But at the same time, I also believe that I should do 'me' - do what I feel comfortable with. But I still get the whole 'try something knew, be bold, venture out and the like' and so I don't know whether I should attempt it or maintain my 'just do me' mantra and stick with it??

Moving to the next issue, I posted this quiz a couple of weeks ago and I got some interesting feedback from the folks that occasionally by.... My issue: when I'm talking with someone, i.e. getting to know the person to see whether there's anything there, I tend to focus on that conversation alone and I can't talk with any other person at the same time... That's just the way I am- I have tried it before and I ended up calling one of the guys by the other one's name! It wasn't pretty folks, that's all I can say, and safe to say, I never heard back from him after that convo! So I tend to focus on just one conversation and see what happens and then move on from there....

So my question folks, is what is your opinion on matchmaking?? And your views of just sticking to talking to one guy at a time??

Cartoon source

This dance

This dance that we dance, You and me

Your hands in mine

Mine in yours

Swaying and moving to music

Unheard by others

Our music is in our hearts

Bodies molded together

Feets firmly on the ground

But hearts, oh hearts caught up

In this dance that we dance

You and I

DO YOU DIP OR DOUBLE DIP?

Are you a serial dater? Take our questionnaire and find out!!!

Serial Dater [sē rēz dāt-әr] noun. A person who has no qualms to date two or more people at the same time; can be both Masculine and feminine in gender.

Synonyms: double-dipper; player, womaniser

1. During the past year, you have been in three ‘relationships’ and your currently angling for your fourth= +8 points.

2. You are of the opinion that ‘we all need to keep out options open’ in a relationship=+3 points.

3. You feel that the ‘Tiger Woods saga’ was more of his enemies trying to get at him=+8 points.

4. You have spent years honing your ‘girl radar’ and can tell when there’s a new girl on the block from miles away=+4 points.

5. You have Jay Zs ‘On to the next one’ as a ringtone=+2 points.

6. Your definition of a long-term relationship is one that lasts for 6 months=+9 points.

7. Your friends generally don’t like you around their sisters=+10 points.

8. You don’t allow your sisters to hang out with any of your male friends=+10 points.

9. You believe that there’s someone, somewhere out there for you to eventually marry, but in the meantime you ‘drop it like its hot’=+12 points.

10. You call all of your girlfriends ‘babe’, not necessarily as a term of endearment but more like a ‘get out of jail’ card just in case you mix up the names of your current girlfriends=+16 points.

I created this questionnaire for fun mostly but there was also a time when a particular guy, in a relationship, who had introduced me to his gf, suddenly backtracked and suddenly 'wanted to show me a good time'..

I personally believe that any score greater than 2 is way off but what do you guys think? And also, what question do you think I may have missed??

Have a good weekend xx