It's all about the timing

When I started this blog I started it to help inspire with simple, fun stories that have happened in my life or to people close to me. Now I'm going to share a story about God's timing, and how it has worked in my life. When I was a junior in high school, I started dating Keith. He became my best friend and we spent a lot of time together. He graduated at the end of that year, but we continued to date. After my senior year, we both went to the same college. About half way through that first year of school, we broke up. We went our separate ways for a while. For the next several years, we would go out a few times, but it never seemed to work out. After college, I moved to Alabama to work at a camp and started teaching there. Keith worked in Madison and eventually moved back to Winder. But we went out over Christmas and sometimes when I was home. It never seemed to work out. At one point, he was engaged and I dated another guy for a couple of years. We both had our own lives. Then December 1996, I was home for Christmas and God told me it was time to move back to Georgia- this is another story for another time! I moved back in May; bought a house in August. At my new house, I needed a fence, and called Keith's dad. Little did I know that Keith would come out to give me an estimate. We started talking, decided to go out a few times, and the rest is history. We married the following June. It had been over 8 years since our initial breakup! It was not in our timing, but in God's. Ecclesiastes 3 tells us there is a time for everything, but we must be ready for each time. "a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing," (Ecclesiastes 3:5 NIV