Sometimes

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 After some 840 posts on the blog I sometimes run out of things to say.  But I write to keep my mind active and don’t want it to deteriorate.  But there’s always something in my mind.  People come into our lives for a Divine reason.  Every person we encounter in life is there for a reason even if we have no idea why.  I write about my wife a lot but after 50 years of marriage, I don’t have to try to figure out why I married her.

My thinking is that it’s a Divine reason why she’s my wife.  Some people come and go and others we keep because there is a reason why we do.  Friendships are important.  And friendships can be with the opposite sex.  But if we try to figure out why they are there, sometimes it’s just because.  

I try not to get too philosophical about why my wife is my wife.  And maybe it’s more theological than it is philosophical.  God has a reason for her.  And I can think that way about anyone in my life.  They’re there just because.  A lot of people have come and gone, but when it comes to friends on FB, I lay it out there and let others want to choose me rather than the other way around.  

This might make for fewer friends, but I’m not interested in quantity.  Otherwise, I could have many more friends than I do.  But I had to learn.  I had no idea what I was doing the first time around.  Now I do.  I had to learn that quality is much better than quantity.  It was a hard lesson to learn.  Some people want to be influencers, so quantity matters.  But my goal is to not be an influencer.  

There is no way I can be.  I can’t explain how to attract Angels.  In fact, there is much I cannot explain.  I’ve tried to explain the unexplainable and found out I can’t.  Even here, I’m uncomfortable writing about Angels.  But my thinking is that if others come across me and want to know more they’ll contact me.  And if they don’t they can avoid me.  And if God doesn’t care, then I don’t either.

So, I guess I have something to say this morning after all,  I just wish I could explain the unexplainable.  I’ve tried a few times and found out I can’t.  I am a Spiritual person who smokes a pipe and leave it at that.  I’ve even tried to explain my Spirituality.  Pipe smoking can be explained in one phrase:  it relaxes me.  Today it is my Peterson Churchwarden pipe with some Old Professor pipe tobacco.  My coffee this morning is Holler Mountain by Stumptown.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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