THE WASTE OF TIME?...Is there such a thing as wasted time? I say out loud the answer is "no" but I cannot see the point from July 2004 to June 2007. There must be a lesson here. I pray that God will show me what He wanted me to know but I haven't heard it yet. Actually, I learned to hear God's voice because of it. I can now say that God's voice is loud and clear in my life but what about having The Sweater in my life? Was I suppose to learn something from The Sweater directly? Why him? I pose this question because a friend of mine is going through a similar situation. I am good at telling her that it was not wasted time and that she and I did what was right. I know I loved deeply and sincerely and did the right thing by the relationship. We have no control over how someone else deals with the same situation. I still feel The Sweater was brought to me for a specific reason. I could have learned to hear God's voice in any given situation. Why did I have to go through what I did with him?

I will not dwell on this but I am sure there will be times when the question will confront me. Perhaps the next time the answer will be crystal clear. In the meantime I must forge ahead and walk the path that God has laid out for me.

To my dear sweet friend who is going through this similar thing, "Let's not focus on what is already done. Forget what is behind and move toward what is ahead". Let's not waste one more day on past decisions that we can no longer change. One day the answers will be clear and we will know we are stronger and wiser because of it.