This morning I have a choice: to head outside where it's damp and cold to get some planting done or stay inside where the fire is going, the coffee is handy, and I can keep one eye on the new Nutsie feeder I just put up this morning. (I have a thing about seeing how long it takes the birds to find it...half an hour and counting so far...waiting..waiting...)
Hands down, inside is the way to go this morning. And besides, I get to spend time with you!
I missed October. Not as in, so sorry to see it go. No, I never even saw it come! But I know it must have because I had to turn the calendar over the other day to write down an appointment and realized, by gosh, that I never even got to enjoy Bastien's calendar picture for that month!
And this is unusual for me. For the last several years...five to be exact...I have had more time on my hands than I knew what to do with. Courtesy of God. I chafed and complained and moaned and groaned that surely there was something more I could do with my life than wait on God. Silly, right?
Like it's been said, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
On good days, when I had things to keep me occupied, I would exclaim, How does anyone ever have time to work?
On bad days, I'd cry in my pretzels on how life was passing me by, and Seriously, why are You holding me captive?
For the like of me, I don't know why God finally remembered me...or was done with me...or had mercy on me...but this past month He finally said, Go. And with great trepidation I applied...one more time...for a job. At a birding store. Because I love birds and birding and all things nature.
When the owner called and told me I had the job, I literally cried. (Yes, I cry a lot.) I was not forgotten! God did see me here waiting all those years. And look at what He gave me! I couldn't imagine working anywhere else and being any happier.
And that's when it got interesting...