Counting on Your Love
They say that God never closes a door, without opening another, but sometimes we are so busy looking at the closed door, that we forget to turn around and see the new direction in our lives.
Ya know what though? I wasn’t looking at the closed doors in my life. Heck, I slammed them shut myself, but I sure wasn’t looking for any new ones to open either. Life just has a way of working things out, even when we’re not paying attention, doesn’t it?
Fortunately, I felt the soft gentle breeze of a door opening slowly, one that I didn’t even know was there. I turned to see you standing there, waiting for me, and it just felt right.
Even as I walk toward that new door, I find myself looking back just long enough to make sure that I have kept all the promises I have made to myself.
I realize then that I have one last commitment that has not yet been completed, and I know that it is time to finish that task that I left undone, for another day, for a better time.
At some point in the coming days, I will be revisiting the hell of quitting smoking, no medications, no games, just putting down the smokes for the last time. I’m counting on your love sweetheart, to help me get past this, once and for all.
“It just is, remember?”
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Please count on wholehearted support. If anyone can conquer all of her demons, you can Cricket. My one little word of advice from one who’s been there (forgive me) you are my teacher, don’t be too hard on yourself and quit everything at once. One day at a time (and likewise once vice at a time)
But I’m so amazed and awed that you (and your precious daughter) have bounced back so quickly from life’s happenstances. Anyone who can do that can (and will) do anything. And the fact that you have love knocking at your door definitely means your ready. E
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Life is to short to waste a single moment of it dwelling on the past, or those things that we cannot change. When life knocks ya on your butt, there is only one thing you can do that makes any sense to me. Get back up and move on.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Hang in there, Cricket!
If I, the Queen of The Land of No Will Power, can quit smoking (and I have been smoke free TEN YEARS NOW!) then trust me, absolutely anyone can quit smoking and someone as strong as you can certainly do it.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
With the support of wonderful friends like all of y’all, I just can’t lose. Y’all are the best!
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:06 am
CAPACITY
by Peter Henniker-Heaton
If God forgave the uncompleted task,
The shelved assignment of the work undone,
Then might we think that God could sometimes ask
Too much of man.
But God requires the utmost farthing paid,
His will completely done;
Therefore our hearts may answer unafraid:
“Because we must, we can.”
Jubilee and Other Poems
E. D. Abbott Company
November 9th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Wow Cricket, you have been playing your cards close to your chest. So you’ve got a man to play Texas Hold ‘Em with? Good news, congrats hon!
November 9th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
One day at a time.
April 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Baby steps and have faith that everything can and will work out for the best.