The Road on which We met

The Road on which we met

Wow! I didn’t know you yet but I could feel this strong magnetic pull, and for years I just knew that there would be someone that would be the just the core of me. I walked for years and met others that would make me regret and want to forget and have reservations but get this life was not done with me yet. I think that I heard a song go something just like this, we have only just began to live white lace and promises a kiss for luck and we are on our way, we have only began! Wow this song set the tone for why I held my position for so long.

One can only imagine who this person could be, and then the excitement comes when you start to think how they would look, and there are loads of flashing lights that carry hundreds of bits of information to the brain and everyone that you meet who even just have a nice personality, are now suspect to this game which you now play. So you start to breathe disappointment into your life, you corrupt your senses and there is a dull flavor to the taste of the opposite sex. Well this is not hatred or anything of such but the state in which you have got take ownership of, but the next day you go on and it now becomes another day and another.

So let’s play devil’s advocate and go to a place or places and imagine for just a bit; you are looking for the one thing that you seem not to have and that is love. We will make the ultimate female and see if anyone can fit, now remember that this is not real but in the mind.
She is kind, but before we go there lets us look and the first meeting and how she looks. This is the gal of your dreams and she looks like something or does that matter? Well! No it does not. But she is beautiful anyway, smooth skin and beautiful eyes and that is all. Oh I might as well put her height and a few more things after all I am going to be with her for the rest of my life and I can not afford top leave something out. Now do you see how this task can become burdensome and never ending? But the truth is that is what this world has done to us and the small things like this and many more prohibits us from doing the one thing which is deciding just to love the person whom God brings before you to love. We think of going out to get that person and what all they should have that the one person who we already have in front of us may be the one. And the sad part is we set ourselves up for failure. I met the one for me and I may have to be patient as to be on time with her but she first loves to give, she love this world and thinks it is beautiful. I am sure that she loves God and wants to live with her heart on the outside, wow this is great and get this she is the most beautiful woman in the world, why because I said so and no one can tell me different, my final answer.

I have being on this road for a long time and have realized that all the women I have had relationship with have great qualities and I was not there to bring out the best in them, nor was I myself the man I am now to show them the goodness that was in me that I bring to the table. So in conclusion this is to say what? I have been to the mountain top and I have seen the best that man and woman can be and I desire to be the best I can be and hope that just one woman sees the same and does it. Then I know that we could one day meet and no matter where she is or how she looks we were meant for each other because the God of the cosmos has a formula for stars like us to collide and make a big bang in our lives. And that my friends is true love, the workings of two people who decide to better themselves no matter what, then making the decision to love people and themselves and then be willing to love another to the end of life’s path. And the path they choose is ordered of God not by themselves and using the laws of truth and spirit to fulfill there meager existence.

The simple truth is we need to all live by higher rules than the ones we want to make up for ourselves, which fall short all the time and leave us lurking in the dark for answers, then end up reading someone’s self-help book that really does not pick you up from the inside. Please if I ever tell you something that I truly believe and it is that we really need to find out what true love is and just do it, and go absolutely crazy doing it to everyone then you will find out the good part of life.

I promise it works, make it a habit and make it stay.
Here is a poem that I hope you like.

HAND ME DOWNS

As I look through the book of old photographs,
My Grandmother looked so dignified, so set apart.
And as I go back in memory,
I smile with gratitude of the things she taught me.

I live a life now with treasured memory,
And use only hand me downs my grandmother gave to me.
She set me straight to look and see,
Prepared me for the world that has come to be.

She use to set us down with this big old bible book,
Said “gather round lets sing some hymns then all take a look.
There was not a day that we ever missed,
She did her job, and then she gave God thanks for this.

I remember Grandpa too just a man for to see,
When I become a man that is who fashioned me.
He thought the world of Christ and what he came to do,
I can hear the hand me downs ringing in my ear through and through.

As a boy I hated all the old hand me downs,
But today I wear them proud and strong.
They are not old rags like the ones I had,
They are the simple virtues that get you close to God and lets you know He is near.


By Guy T. Woods
4/12/04