I'd like to watch you sleep at night, to hear you breathe by my side. - Dido

Every time I think I have my life down to a predictable, and fairly pleasant, semi-random sequence of events, something else happens to surprise my socks right off my feet, if you'll forgive the southernism. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's not. Good or bad, though, it's always mind-blowingly wow. I can't truthfully say that my life makes all the sense in the world right now, or that almost all of the problems I had hoped to have solved by now have been. I can't even say that I don't notice something new about my life every day that I don't quite know how to deal with. I can say, though, that I realize so, SO much now how much I need God and the people with whose companionship He blesses me to celebrate with me my good days and sorrow with me my not-so-good-ones.
There are about a thousand and one beautiful things I notice about the world every day that I had never stopped to pay attention to until rather recently. Sometimes it is the closeness I feel to a friend who is sharing an experience with me in her own life. Sometimes it is the sound of a small child saying, "Thatchoo," after I have held the door open for him to go through. Sometimes it is looking out of my window to see the cute couple kissing just on the other side of the parking lot. And still other times it is something remarkably beautiful about how many prayers of mine God answers every hour of every day, some of which I have long since forgotten I prayed.

He keeps surprising me with love and hope and joy and pain and obstacles my wildest dreams had not even dared to imagine.

And now, the much-anticipated song of the day. (Don't analyze my reasons for posting it; it is a really good song by a chick with a really pretty voice.)

"I’ve been searching for reason and I’m running out of time
I can feel that it’s the season
Time to make up my mind
And I can’t really tell ya what I’m gonna do
There are so many thoughts in my head
There are two roads to walk down
And one road to choose
So I’m thinking over the things that you’ve said
I’m thinking over the things
Thinking over, thinking over
Thinking over the things that you’ve said
I’m thinking over, thinking over, thinking over the things
Am I ready for forever
Oh, God, show me a sign
Cause if we’re to be together
Then it’s got to be divine
And I can’t really tell ya what I’m gonna do
There are so many thoughts in my head
There are two roads to walk down
And one road to choose
So I’m thinking over the things that you’ve said
I’m thinking over the things
Thinking over, thinking over
Thinking over the things that you’ve said
I’m thinking over, thinking over, thinking over the things
He wants to marry me, carry me far away
He wants to love me for life
He wants to be with me every morning I awake
He wants to hold me thru the night
Father, which way should I go?
I cannot clearly see
And, oh, I love him so
But only you know if he’s the one for me
Thinking over, thinking over
Thinking over the things that you’ve said
I’m thinking over, thinking over, thinking over the things
And I can’t really tell ya what I’m gonna do
There are so many thoughts in my head
There are two roads to walk down
And one road to choose
So I’m thinking over the things that you’ve said
Oh, is this where I wanna be?
Thinking over the things that you said" - Thinkin Over, Dana Glover