The Little Things

A couple of weeks ago I was walking through the cafeteria at my school. I saw one of the ladies who is always quite friendly cleaning up the tables. I said "hi" and asked how she was doing and then noticed that she had something on her ankle! I was about to comment on her pedometer when I thought better of myself. I ended up just walking away. As I thought about it later, I decided that surely it was a pedometer because if she was on house arrest or something she couldn't work in the school.

Well, this morning, thanks to the morning talk show I wake up to, I had an epiphany that it was not a pedometer, or that she was on house arrest. But, I had to thank God, that He encouraged me to shut my big fat mouth as I realized that it was an alcohol monitoring anklet!

My revelation helped me remember again that God really IS good! Well, not that I never thought that before, but it's just amazing how He is always in the little things! My actions that day in the cafeteria, whether or not I embarrassed her and/or myself, were not going to be Earth shattering, but yet His Spirit gently whispered into my ear that the question I was going to ask this woman would be better left unsaid! I know that I haven't always listened to that still small voice in the past, but lately I have wondered if I really do hear from God! I guess this is my answer! He is still there, gently nudging me forward with His encouragement and love! I just have to listen a little bit more carefully! I'm so glad I listened that particular day!

Escape

I always have to be careful whenever I begin a new book. The problem with my reading is that I become so involved in my books that it begins to consume me! I become so engrossed that it begins to become real to me! Some would say it is an escape from reality, but sometimes it begins to become my new reality. I find myself thinking about a move to London so I can go to Victoria Station to find platform 9 and 3/4 just so I can get on the Hogwarts Express, or go to New York City and cast my frugality aside to become a shopaholic; and most recently move to Washington where it's rainy and overcast 320 days a year and hope that my blood is intriguing enough to attract a vampire who will fall in love with me and not want to kill me.

I became intrigued by the Twilight novels after watching the movie. I knew it would suck (no pun intended) me in, just as every other series of books I have read have reeled me in. So far they have managed to thrill me, chill me, make me very nervous and fill me with LOTS of angst! Seriously, I keep calling friends who have read the book to debrief with them.

There are so many characters in this book that I don't know exactly who to root for! For example, in Pride and Prejudice, you root for Mr. Darcey, in Emma, you root for Mr. Knightly, in Pirates of the Carribbean you root for Will Turner and in Bridget Jones' Diary, you root for, well Mr. Darcy..again. But this book, like in the movie Sweet Home Alabama, Bella has two great options! I love both characters and to be honest, I'm nervous about finishing this series to find out the ending! What if I am dissatisfied? I will have wasted one week of my Christmas vacation reading an unsatisfying series of books. Perhaps I should just put it away, but even now it's calling me with its pretty little cover sitting on the pillow next to me!

Ahh, I suppose I will have to succumb. Goodnight all...