Today has been an unusually challenging day for me – how about for you?   I had plans, but when the plans changed, I suddenly found myself with time on my hands to fill.   There went my laundry list of excuses as to why I hadn’t worked on setting up this blog.   Today I had the time.   So after this novice spent hours reading a very detailed list of how-to steps, I started the process.   I will save you the sorted details, but I will be transparent enough to admit to a mini melt-down about half way through the process.    Nothing being a much younger, more sophisticated techy wouldn’t have fixed… yet here I am.   I became good buddies with a live chat support guy named Tyler who helped me a great deal.    Somehow, after taking a much needed break, I managed to climb the mountain of steps to get us to this point!

So why “At The Cross” and why as a blog?   Nearly nine months ago, I found myself walking out of a job for a company I had worked for 16 years and not by my choosing.   That entire experience I will save for another post.   In the days following I listed out numerous options I could explore – this being one of them.  I’m not proud to admit it’s been going on ten months since then – so procrastination abounds, however, I do believe in many ways when the time is right, the teacher arrives and the student is ready.

I knew that many months ago that I would name the blog “At The Cross”.   Mostly because it’s where I spent many days and admittedly weeks following my abrupt career ending.   I have way too many questions that would never be answered and only one place that made sense to me.   At a place of total and complete surrender to our God who knows what was happening and why.   You may be hoping that I have answers to share with you, yet, the truth is not very many.   Perhaps we only need a few of what I call ‘answers that have an eternal perspective’?    If you are like me, I always said I was creating a LONG list of questions for God once we met in heaven.   Then someone really burst my thought bubble and said, “when we get to heaven, we won’t care about any of those questions any longer”.  Dang it!  Now what do I do with them?  (Perhaps we can entertain some of mine and some of your such questions, over time).

I hope we can spend enough time together, openly sharing what we are thinking, feeling and hoping for.   I’m very glad you are here!   If you find this worthwhile, please pass it along.

Dede