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Main character, or just a walk on?

~ Denise ~ 7 Comments

Does anyone else ever wonder why some people follow their blogs?

I don’t think I’m that witty.

Well, okay, I can be sometimes.

I’m random.  I’m a sporadic writer, at best at the present.

I think I do a pretty good job picking out those who just “like” a post or “follow” me for the sole purpose to build up their audience base.

But then there are those people who make me go hmmm.

What did I say that peaked their interest?  They don’t seem to comment.  So, hmm, I wonder.

Perhaps I am a character for an upcoming writing project.

I wonder if I’m the main character or just a walk on?

I better get busy providing more material, I mean I could be the main character!

Oh, the pressure of the thought!  Ha!

Reality check time Denise….don’t you think you have enough on your plate now?

Time to do some more sorting and packing.

Denise – exit stage left.

I’m a character alright.

Definition

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Hey

Do I have your attention?

The first definition of hey is getting someone’s attention or expressing surprise,  anger or showing your annoyed.

Hey, John!  Come here a minute!

Hey!  Watch where you’re going!

The second definition of hey is hello.

Hey, Sue.  How are you?

The South is where I first learned how the second definition is truly used.

In the South, hey is  hello, hi, and how’s it going.  (Even though in my mind “How’s it going?” will always be associated with a certain  N’Awlins transplant.)

The first time I heard the expression was when we moved here for the second time in 1994.

I was walking down the hallway of the Realtor’s office with the boys in tow, and I heard a woman behind me saying “hey”.  She kept saying “Hey…Hey!”

I was like, “gees, I’m hurrying as fast as I can, pleeeese lady, give me a break”.  (This was in my head of course; you know, children with, trying to set an example and all that, however, we did have a big laugh and discussion about it later so….never mind).   The first chance I had to move out of her way I did and turned around, to which she looked at me and said “Hey, I’m so and so”.  It was then that I realized that “hey” was a greeting.

I guess it was only natural that I would start using the expression.

I don’t remember when I realized the frequency that I used it.

Maybe it was when we traveled to our home state of PA and I said “hey” as a greeting and got that strange look like “what the heck?”

“Hey” had become part of my everyday vocabulary.

Recently, Craig and I had a reason to travel to another part of the country.

I thought about it when I said hello to people who greeted me.

I said hello, or hi.  I tried not to just say hey.

I didn’t want to stand out too much, “don’t you know”.

4-27 Tapestry

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Sometimes I get anxious to see the other side of the tapestry.  All I can see are the knots.  And there have been some big knots.  I mean when the threads of our lives have woven and inter-woven so many times and it looks like one big jumbled mess, I’d just like to see what the final picture looks like.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”  Jeremiah 29:11

I get that, but I have to admit that sometimes I struggle with my little mustard seed of faith when I see the jumble of threads and knots.

I could pretend that I have it all together all the time, and don’t have questions and struggle with things.

But who would I be kidding?

Not my family, not my friends.  Not anyone who really knows me.

I was pondering and feeling more than a little inadequate with my little mustard seed of faith about the matter, when I opened my emails and happened upon my daily devotion for the day:

John 3:27 we find a simple but powerful truth, “God in heaven appoints each person’s work” (NLT). John explained that because God had given him his work, he had to continue it until God called him to do something else. Amos raised sheep until God called him to be a prophet proclaiming God’s message to others. If you are following God’s blueprint for your life, your job is part of your life plan and you are successful. God can and will work through you to do extraordinary things, no matter how “ordinary” your occupation may be in the eyes of man.

I know there are days when the will of God seems completely wrong and we do not understand. We are treading water, desperately longing to see Him walking on the treacherous waves toward us, rescue in His hand. It is in those shadowed moments that we must choose to trust the Plan Maker because His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. One day, every one of our question marks will be yanked into exclamation points as we see that high plan as He sees it – perfect! – Mary Southerland (Girlfriends in God)

Here was a message that I needed to hear, delivered at the right time.  I don’t know why it still surprises me when that happens.  Instead of focusing on the knots, I need to focus on the beauty of the individual threads and colors.  I need to be thankful for the gifts and abilities that He has given, and trust Him to guide my steps and decisions.

I know this.  I just need to be reminded sometimes.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you..

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Well, I did warn you that I’m apt to jump all over the place.  I said “to be continued” on my last blog entry, but my mind seems in a “holding pattern” on it.

I have the rest of my journal entry from that time, but I really don’t want to revisit it right now.  So since my brain hasn’t felt like thinking on it, I haven’t posted on it.  But then I got to thinking, I might not feel like visiting that for a while, so I figure I better let you know where I am in that.  I’ll get back to it when I can.  It’s just sort of “stuck” right now.

I get that way.  I’m actually thinking and writing on two different blog entries and they are in pieces.  I get to a point and I have to stop.  Trouble is when I stop, it isn’t in a logical stopping point where I can post, it’s just a point when my brain says enough.

Sometimes I’m tired, sometimes I get distracted, sometimes there are other things to do or sometimes I really don’t want to think or remember where it’s taking me.  And then there is the “I lost my train of thought, and I can’t get it back.”  THaT’s frustrating!

So this is where I am right now random things.   Probably blame it on hormones or lack of hormones – yeah – menopause.  Oh, great, another topic I can blog about.  Now I have another post to start, and maybe get finished…

wait….maybe I already did that…..

I better check