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Hope for a friend

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I wrote an awful lot here. I wrote about love and loss and my dark desire for fruitcake. I loved. I lost. I ate fruitcake. That kinda sums it up, huh? Yeah, but I still have some hopes.  My hope for the girl I loved so hard is she simply follows the Lord's leading, and I know she will. She is a very special person. God is moving through her. I've seen this in many people's lives, including my own, but there is a second life that begins at age 40. I see it happen most with people who are of faith. There is a bondage and a wandering of sorts sometimes in the first 4o years, and then God brings them into the promised land. I've seen it many times. You can call me crazy if you want. Maybe it has applies here; maybe it doesn't. But I know she will follow her Lord to the end. And He has something very special planned for her. And I have many hopes. I believe God has someone for her, though she may not know who it is yet. Maybe he's already in her life. But he's th...