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lydia went on a very awkward date!

today, i went on a date.

off to starbucks we went. i ordered a venti chai (just the tea, not the latte), plopped down on a cozy green armchair and was determined to get to know more about my date.

alas, it was a very awkward date. the kind of date where the conversation is stilted, and you are left wracking your brains for what to say. the kind of conversation where you feel prone to falling asleep, or are perhaps too stubborn and disinterested in listening. i rarely have trouble opening up to friends, but this time i felt stiff and awkward, like a teenage girl, out on a date for the first time.

it was the kind of date where you KNOW there's potential to be more, but you're just distracted, and you're rusty in your dating skills. i wanted to be fully there, but the distractions were many. even when i wasn't distracted by the external, i was distracted by the internal.

hopefully, i'll have a better date tomorrow. maybe tomorrow, i'll actually take the baggage off my shoulders and actually SIT at His feet.


"Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.
Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples.
Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,
and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,
because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,
for he has glorified you.

"Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

"For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

"For you shall go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the LORD,
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."

~isaiah 55