My Social Media-less Life

It’s been hard to write lately. There are a number of reasons for that.

There are the more obvious reasons…
– Work is busy
– Busy pet-sitting
– Getting more involved in church again

But then there are the less obvious and more excuse-filled reasons…
– Don’t want to
– Don’t feel like it
– Forgot my keyboard (yes, I have used this one as an excuse)

Although to be fair to myself, I have been journaling a lot more. Since some of the thoughts I’ve been having aren’t meant to be shared with the world, I need to put them down somewhere. Thankfully, journaling— although not something I do as often as I want— is something I can pick back up no problem at any point in my life.

When lack of shareable content abounds… it goes into the journal.

On a different note… and more in line with the title of this post…

A friend of mine told me on Friday that her birthday was today (March 6 if you’re reading this on a different date) and I told her it’s easier for me to remember that because a man I had an affair with almost 10 years ago has a birthday on that day as well.

She laughed and started to make a joke about it, but then I said,
“So it’s redeeming the date for me.”
She stopped laughing and replied, “Wow, that’s heavy.”

It wasn’t meant to be… I mean, for me it is a big deal. But dates are hard for me to remember so when I do finally memorize the important ones, they stick with me forever. Having had a “replacement” birthday in place of a man’s I had no business being involved with is not “heavy” so much as it is freeing.

There was a large period of time where I wasn’t sure anything would replace that date in my mind… but the Lord is good and He is all about redemption.

He redeems people, relationships, space, and time.

People get so caught up in thinking their lives are wasted or ruined because they spent what they thought were “the best years” of their lives goofing off and not doing whatever it is they were called to do.

However, those situations make us who we are. Sure, we don’t have to go through those things and be dumb just to get the message, but the Lord can use us in spite of those times in our lives.

And He will use us, if we let Him.

So even though I will still think of that man from time to time, my friend’s birthday was just the thing I needed to begin another step in the process of healing and wholeness once more. And I’m grateful for that.