Ah, Summer!
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Posted:Jun 7, 2008 11:36 pm
Last Updated:May 11, 2024 3:23 pm 9036 Views
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Rejoice rejoice, the summer's here!
And what do I have to show for it?
Honeysuckle breeze and cold root beer,
a loved one by my side to share a smile
beneath the moon and stars in a warm Virginia sky. 's enough for me.
How life treating you?
I wish for you
all you wish for yourself, plus someone else's joy welling up and spilling all over your life.
Anyway... have a wonderful summer.
Keep the faith, Lee
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Well, I never!
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Posted:Sep 22, 2007 6:07 pm
Last Updated:Feb 7, 2008 8:51 pm 8853 Views
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All right! Now I'm opicially fissed! The agents of Sin-sorship banned a picture I tried to upload to my profile photos! And it was a beauty, too!
Now, as many of you know, the lovely Wendy (tytyty) and I became really close online, then I flew from Florida to "somewhere in Virginia" to meet said lady, and she and I were blessed at every turn by and for one another. It was great! But it didn't take long for me to get tired of going through airport security and having to have my shoes searched as part of the dating ritual. Sooooo, to make a long story short. I asked lovely Wendy to marry me and she said yes.
I have since moved to Virginia, bought a house and found gainful employment.
On August 4, 2007 Wendy and I were married.
As most of you probably know, living happily ever after takes a long time, a lot of work and some sacrifices, but, by the grace of God, we've made a beginning. We also found that in some cases it involves the wife bashing her foot into a box of canned goods and breaking her little toe. What a bummer!
But in the great painting of life, the dark areas often provide contrast for the light, accentuating all the more the value of what we've been given.
Anyway, I tried to upload a picture of Wendy and me just after the minister pronounced us husband and wife. You would think that this would be the greatest advertizing possible for BC! This picture says "Look, it works!" "Happy Christian couple who met on BC are now married!!!"
But noooo0OOO0ooo!
It violateth the commandment:
YE MUST BE PICTURED ALONETH!
NOT WITH THOMBODY ELTH!
Well, that thtinkth!
Ith thupid!
.... hmmmmph!
Well, I've griped enough.
Let the festivities resume!
Praise God!
It's a beautiful day!
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Update
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Posted:Jun 23, 2007 8:36 pm
Last Updated:Jul 4, 2007 10:44 pm 9114 Views
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I decided that, under the circumstances I should update my profile, so I did. Being now a standard member I know the frustration of not being able to just look at people's profiles at will, so for the benefit of any other standard members, I'm posting my profile update here as well:
I was looking for that special woman to share my life's journey with, and, by the grace of God, we found each other here on BC. It didn't happen right away... God gave me time to make some friends here first, time to share thoughts and feelings on this transitional period many of us have found ourselves in. I guess I've kind of... not rediscovered myself, because I've never been this self before... but yes, discovering who I am... my strengths and weaknesses; my hopes and fears. I've grown with others in the faith that God will see us through this in His time... and in my case that timing has brought me to the verge of moving to Virginia this summer, to find a house and marry a lady who is more than I could have hoped for or imagined!
So to you who are searching, my suggestion is prayer, faith and patience... but also taking risks in communicating openly with others (selectively) and accepting whatever response you get. You will never be lessened by someone's response to you, if you know your own worth in God's eyes (precious, immeasurable). And you may, by your honesty and openness, give someone else permission to express what they've only thought up to now.
God be with you.
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God's amazing economy
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Posted:Jun 14, 2007 1:02 pm
Last Updated:Jul 5, 2007 7:42 pm 8883 Views
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I got thinking about recent developments between myself and Lady Gwendolyn (Wendy), and I realized what God had done. He answered the prayers of two people (in truth many more than two) with one smooth act by bringing the two of us together. What economy! I love it!
But I know this is no isolated incident, He does it all the time. He blesses someone, and by so doing he blesses those around that someone, blesses those through whom that person was blessed, blesses people who woke up in the middle of the night and prayed for God only knows who... pretty much everyone in sight,
plus a few!
So just be aware, you're likely to get blessed whether you're looking for it or not.
It just the way He is.
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Truly God's blessing: I'm in love!!!
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Posted:Jun 13, 2007 3:15 pm
Last Updated:Dec 29, 2007 9:48 am 8940 Views
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Yep, you read it right, I'm in LOVE!!! Better still, we're in love
And it happened right here on BC! Her name's Wendy and her handle is tytyty which stands for thank you thank you thank you !
We talked for months here and on the phone before I finally flew up to VA to meet her.
As to the question of whether there was any chemistry, we were immediately comfortable with, and attracted to each other. We took time to get acquainted. There was romance even without any romantic behavior, and when, days later, we did behave romantically, well, we did behave, but...
Chemistry? I'll just say we managed to avoid spontaneous combustion!
I've asked Wendy to marry me, and she's said yes!
We haven't set a date yet because right now we're trying to deal with this geography problem. I've started looking for employment and a house where she is. As soon as I have anything more definite to share, I'll be overjoyed to do so.
BC is a place where things can happen, if we don't mind waiting on the Lord, and taking some risks.
As I've heard a good friend say so many times, "How can we not praise Him?" thanks Marilyn.
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A bit of intrigue...
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Posted:May 31, 2007 10:24 pm
Last Updated:Dec 29, 2007 11:30 am 9079 Views
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I don't tend to do things that are cliquish, as a rule, but in this case... if you are in my friend's network go look at the recent additions to my photo album and see if you can figure out what's going on. Feel free to post any wild guesses here. ??? !!!
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Well, here it is Easter again!
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Posted:Apr 8, 2007 5:06 pm
Last Updated:Dec 29, 2007 11:28 am 9144 Views
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Happy Easter!
One of the guys at church this morning was dressed up like a great big bunny.
He looked absolutely ridiculous.... it was great! The younger loved it, and by the time 'the bunny' showed up, the older ones had already gotten to go hide eggs all over the grounds, which they thoroughly loved. My 16 year old said he and another guy had hidden eggs "everywhere", including one in a tree.
I asked him if the little would be able to get that one, and he said "Sure, they can throw a stick at it or something."
....Gotta love em......
We live in a world in which everything is relative. And it occurs to me that,
in this world, the best we can hope to accomplish is to do that which is relatively good. It comes with the territory which was founded on freewill.
But when we turn and seek God, He who we encounter, and that which He plants within us and through us are by nature absolutely good...
Not something found in our do-it-yourself-kits, but the Divine nature entering into our temporal lives. That's what Jesus is all about. The Divine nature entering into the world which had slipped out of sync with the Divine.... entering in so that we could take His life.... entering in to bring that life, at such a great cost, not because of our worthiness, but because of His love.
The Giver, whose nature is absolute good, seeks to bring us home.
Let's not get left standing behind the door.
Let's not leave someone else standing behind the door.
God has provided an interface for us... Jesus.
Log on today!
Have a great Easter!
Your brother in Christ,
Lee
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Blessing
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Posted:Feb 26, 2007 9:56 pm
Last Updated:Sep 22, 2007 8:55 pm 9268 Views
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In closing something I was writing, I wanted to put a blessing, but I was tired and didn't know what to say... next thing I knew I'd written this, which is addressed to "you", but I think He meant it for me, as much as anyone.
May God bless your vision
to always see yourself embraced by His love.
And may He bless your understanding
that you may know that not only the works of your good intentions, but also your impulsive acts and thoughtless blunders have a place within His plan.
There is no ground where His Holy Purpose may not bear fruit, if we make it available to Him.
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Dedication of Today
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Posted:Feb 4, 2007 2:25 pm
Last Updated:Dec 29, 2007 11:26 am 9349 Views
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May God’s mercy and grace be the mainstay of my life.
May the wind of His Holy Spirit blow through me,
displacing the stale air of selfishness
with the fresh breeze of Divine love.
Through each moment of my day
may the politic of social barter be transformed
to that of giving unconditionally of myself.
May I look beyond the needs in me that I know God will fill
and perceive the needs of others,
that God may work through me in their lives.
In this lies my greatest fulfillment
and the manifestation of God’s Will
(on earth as it is in Heaven).
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A group therapy of one.
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Posted:Jan 6, 2007 3:27 pm
Last Updated:Mar 4, 2007 6:26 am 9404 Views
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God has some strange ways of speaking to me. Here's something he gave me a while back, though I only just now wrote it down.
As I was returning from my dad’s house, I felt compelled to stop at a cemetery. I don’t know anyone buried in that cemetery, but that’s what I felt led to do, so I did.
I wandered through the granite and bronze and marble, looking at headstones, dates and comments. One headstone inscription said the man had been born in 1904 and died in 2004. Wow, a hundred years! The youngest I saw was of a little boy who died just short of his eleventh birthday. In the section I was in it seemed a lot of people had died fairly young... 24, 30, 35, 48.
Then I felt directed to do something, to realize something. I’ll try to put it in words, thought that’s not how it came to me:
Explain to the “residents” here about all the losses and hardships you’ve been burdened with.
I didn’t have time to say the words. The revelation hit me too quickly for that. I saw myself standing alone in this cemetery, and if there was any response from the “residents”, it would have just reinforced what I already saw...
that I was the only candle in an otherwise dark room...
I am alive!
I am alive!
Nothing, no burdens, no hardships, no heartbreak could in any way,
to any extent, diminish that fact. I am alive! There’s no scale to that... no 80% alive or 40% alive. You’re either alive or dead, and I stood, the lone living being in a landscape of memorials. What an incredible gift this moment of life is!
“Thank you”, I said, but not to “them”. I turned and headed for my car, muttering to myself something about. “I can act... I can effect things... I can influence history!”
And indeed, I can.
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