Now to Finish up Yesterdays Tail!

To recap from yesterday, I moved to Delaware.  Moved in with Andrea...now we continue...The first night that Andrea and I were sharing the apartment, someone came up the steps, (it was a top of the garage apartment) pushed in the screen in the window and reached in and stole my purse.  There really wasn't a lot in it, a pipe, and a small amount of green stuff, (it was 1974 and I was a flower child, if you would) a little make-up and a little money.  So it wasn't a huge loss.  At that point in my life I was working as a bartender, not the best line of work for a female, but it was good money, unfortunately now in looking back it really was money from the devil and that is not a good way to earn your keep. 

Okay back to the point.  My parents found out that I had moved because my purse was later found in the Delaware Canal, and the local police found my drivers license inside my purse, identity theft wasn't yet a big industry in the mid-70's, so the police, doing their job, called my parents and asked them if they knew were I was.  They didn't and I am not sure how it all came about, I think I may have checked in with my parents (called)  and I do remember getting an amazing earful.  Which I did deserve.  I was being a very naughty sheep. 

I was following the wrong life style, and the wrong group of people, it was not a good scene, although I thought it was.  I was doing everything wrong, I wasn't trying to do everything wrong, BUT, if you are not doing things RIGHT, then you will be doing things WRONG. 

Unfortunately for me I stayed in that lifestyle until I was 22, four years of nothing, no learning, well perhaps I learned a few things, I learned what I shouldn't have been doing,  I was really going in no direction at all.  I thought I was having fun, but all I was doing was walking with evil and I suppose the devil was just bidding his time to really get a hold of me, which, thank God, I must have had someone praying for me, because I did manage to come back to reality. 

Although there were good things that came out of the next eight years of my life, there were also some very unpleasant lessons to learn during that time.  I was still not totally living a life for God.  I was, "Professing God, but not Possessing God," as said by Mrs. Janet Brown, last evening at our Women of the Word Group.  Sometimes it takes us a fairly long time to realize that walking with our Savior is really the only way to live a good and pleasant life.

I have learned many things over the years, things that I should do and some things that I shouldn't do.  They are flat out evil and against God and God's commands.  And since I am walking much more closely with our Savior I am so much happier.  Life is good and I thank God that I at least have a few good years to serve Him.  It does make me terribly sad to realize that I wasted so much of the invaluable time that our Lord did give to me to use for Him that I just frittered away.

So now I will not be a follower, as the sheep are, except to follow Christ, I won't be so stubborn as are the goats, and I will not be so curious as the cows.  What I will do, is find someone to bless to day, how about you?