It Makes You Wonder...

Hello friends,
Thank you Heavenly Father for blessing me to work with such a great team at school! Thank you for bringing OA, RJ, PM, BC, NM, and PE into my life! Thank you for helping me with my fifth graders - if it weren't for Your strength - I know I would have gone crazy already. (more than I am, lol) A special prayer for everyone who has asked me to pray for them. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

Lately, it's seems I'm around men who are thirty, or younger, and, who are, coincidentally, also attracted to me. Being a woman older than thirty (clears throat), I'm flattered, of course, but not very enthusiastic about this particular, er, 'predicament.' I am pondering dating some of these men - ugh, here come the 'cougar' comments - but I'm hesitant. For many reasons, but to name a few: do they have 'mom issues' they're working on? (more than likely) what's really in it for them, or me? How mature will they be as 'long term' suitors? Are they intelligent, or just amusing? You know, the usual 'relationship' questions one asks. (BTW, I don't have an answer for any of these questions...at the moment (wink).) And, as with most things in my life now, I am taking my time.
These questions remind me of a couple who go to my church and have recently become engaged; I think she is older than him.
Now, I don't know the woman very well, but there was a very short period of time where I had a crush on the guy. When I saw him in mass, during the week no less, just like me, I thought, "That is the kind of man I'd like to meet..." Nothing ever transpired between this young guy and me - though I knew he noticed me - if only bc I was one of the 'younger' people attending daily mass, not that my ego didn't want to imagine him noticing me - but I was only given a 'cursory' nod of recognition from him. Please note: since he and I were feasibly on the same page spiritually, this would have trumped any age issue between us.
As for the woman he's engaged to...I was perplexed by what I'll call her 'spiritually lacking nature.' I'd seen her a couple times in mass, with him, indubitably, but only on the weekends, not during the week, which made me wonder if she had the same 'imateriality,' that he and I possess - ostensibly assuming that one can 'sense' a devotion to God - and,- that I possess the capacity to judge such faculties. Not.
Whenever something bothers me emotionally, I'm cognizant God is giving me a lesson.
I prayed, "Show me what I'm supposed to learn, Lord."
The Holy Spirit gave me this insight: despite age and any other 'dissimilarity' I think this couple has, what is important is their developing bond, together, to Jesus. And so it is for me, My connection to God will lead me to the person I'm supposed to be with, if I'm supposed to be with anyone, but what is most important, is my link to Christ.
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." Mother Theresa