Making It Plain

The years continue to press on after a divorce. Bills still have to be paid and children have to be fed ( 1Timothy 5:8 AMP ). Time can be your friend or foe. Your priorities change from keeping yourself "tight" to making sure the lights will be on another month along with running water. I recall looking at my broken nails after washing the dishes and contemplating if I could go another week without cleaning the refrigerator. I knew at one point in my life not having a manicure every 3 weeks was unheard of yet there I was with my hair pulled back in a pony tail, wearing an over sized sweatshirt, with jenky nails. Two other things I promised myself I wouldn't do. What has happened? It's a question that is unnecessary to ask as maturity finds there are much more important things to do. Disregarding the condition of my manicure I delved head first into a career. It was as if all of the work, schooling, and sacrifice I did were for nothing. Why hadn't things happened...

 Warning: The reference to the movie, Indecent Exposure was first released in 1981. The rating now is NC-17. The rating then was PG with much of its content different than it is now. I recently tried to watch the movie again. I could not. I have an excellent memory. What I saw in the first 5 minutes, was not on the big screen back in the day. I apologize. If you choose to watch, it is at your own risk. Let's paint a picture with you in it. The person of your dreams and you are married. It is everything you thought it could be and so much more. You laugh to yourself remembering how afraid you were to take that life altering leap down the aisle. But now you have matured and know better ...only there is one little snafu that you didn't think was going to be an issue. The finances. What is happening? You were fine with your budget being single. The person you married was doing well too as a single individual. Together, it should be better, right? Instead of worrying, you know to pr...

I believe the Lord had me write this blog in 2008 because it was going to take more research to finish the book I completed some years ago. The necessity of the blog started when I was at the library designing the cover because at the time I didn't own a computer, and a woman saw the title and asked if I was going to write a chapter on co-habitating. How many times have I used the word, gob-smacked? Clearly, along with the title of it being for singles, there was the word, Christian. Did I miss something? I paused before answering her with a resounding, of course. Then into prayer I went because how does one write about something that is clearly oppositional to what we know? So there I was staring at the title and having no clue what to write in that regard. Then I remembered the 23rd Psalms where the Lord prepared a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Aside from the questions I had asked previously (Why? Why God, why?), I needed to know where did these enemies come ...