My Birthday

Today is my birthday. I didn't do anything special, like go out on the town with friends, but instead enjoyed a quiet day at home and had a wonderful meal with family.

This birthday, though, I consider a turning point for me. For awhile now I've known in my heart that there are some changes that I need to make in my life and I thought my birthday would be a starting point to begin making those changes. The first change I need to work on is becoming more proactive in taking better care of my health and that means eating better and becoming more active. Now I know how hard it is to make changes, but now is the time to make a committment and stick with it....my health and well-being depend on it. I have set a goal of losing 20% of my current body weight by my next birthday.

The next important thing in my life that I want to work on is dating. I haven't done that in a long time and I am ready to get back in the dating scene again, but I have to confess I am not sure how to make this happen and I'm a little nervous about putting myself out there. I was hoping that I would just magically meet that special guy through a friend or just out of nowhere "bump" into him and "poof" magic. How foolish of me to wait for that to happen! The last thing I ever wanted to do was go to the online dating websites. The thought of trying to meet someone and develop a relationship through a computer was absurd to me. Even at the urging of friends and their testimonials about successess, I still avoided the thought of it. "That just isn't for me," I said. Well, I have had a change of heart. I still don't necessarily like the idea of trying to meet someone online, but waiting around for magic to happen is not working for me. I decided that if "magic" didn't happen by this birthday, then I would take that step and "put myself out there" on a website for meeting single men. So, at the eleventh hour of my birthday, and with no hope that magic would happen, I finally took that first step and created a profile of myself and posted it on a website for meeting single Christian men. I didn't make this decision lightly. I prayed often about it and I just have to trust God to lead me every step of the way. Now the journey begins.