5.  I'm so grateful that God knows better than I do.

I was driving home from Aldi this evening when a song came on the radio that took me back to a time long ago and to a former crush.  Man, seriously, God protected me from so many lousy relationships.  I look at how this former crush has turned out, and I think about how other former crushes and former boyfriends or pseudo boyfriends have turned out.  I'm so glad I didn't end up with any of them.

Now I see a workaholic,
an alcoholic,
one who can't hold down a job,
one who didn't want children,
one who didn't see freedom in Christ,
one who wouldn't sing with me in church...

I could go on and on.

I am beyond grateful that God knew better than I did and did not allow of those past relationships to continue.  Of course at the time, I was naively seeing only the dreamy, good things and wearing blinders to the bad.

"God, why won't you just let me have what I want??"  I don't think I used those exact words, but that was pretty much my sentiment when none of the relationships continued.

And it wasn't until years later that my blinders were removed, and I saw all that God had protected me from.

Thank you, God.  Thank you for doing things in Your time, not mine.  Thank you for knowing better than I do.