After a whirlwind two weeks, I started noticing a slight aloofness in biker dude. Both of us had previously booked weekends so, when he called me Saturday night, I was in the comfort of my QT chair when he apologized and said, “There’s something I need to tell you.” He has met someone else and wants to pursue a relationship with her.

A marathon runner since the days when his marriage fell apart, he discovered his love for biking when he hurt his foot earlier this year. And that progressed to his current goal of being a triathlete. I was honest about my current interests and abilities with life and kids; and he would just grin, “I can help you with that.” –which is exactly what I was hoping for. He said all along how important it is to have commonality to build on at this point in our lives….and I was ready to build. But she is also training to be a triathlete so they have the same intense training schedule and the same current obsession, so he can’t help but want to see what might develop.

He was sick about not wanting to hurt me. He kept saying over and over how I’m the kind of woman he’s always wanted and how beautiful I am. He also kept saying, “It’s uncanny how I met her right after you….”

I smiled as I graciously thanked him for being a man of Integrity. I assured him that I truly believed what he and I had said all along, that God has someone wonderful for each of us. And I wished him all the best and said goodbye.

And when I got off the phone, I was still smiling…because I was gently reminded:

It wasn’t simply an “uncanny” twist of fate that brought her into his life right at this moment in time…it was GOD. That’s how He works in my life–His unCANny FAITHfullness to bringing me HIS man. I’ve come to accept the near comical way men have “fallen off the planet” right at the “moment of truth”. I’m starting to call it my “glass ceiling of dating”. And I’m good with that…cuz that’s how I’ll know he’s God’s man for me…he’ll shatter that glass. 🙂

P.S…. Certainly I was disappointed…he was a really great guy. But one of my wonderful coworkers looked me directly in the eyes and said, “Yes, he is a good man. But he didn’t really “trip your trigger” (gotta love a West Texas gal). There are other really good men out there…hold out for the one who trips it.”. 🙂

“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. For You will light my lamp; The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. For who is God, except the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? It is God who arms me with strength, And makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places. You enlarged my path under me, So my feet did not slip. Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your name.” (Psalm 18:2, 28, 30-33, 36, 49 NKJV)

“My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” (1 John 3:18 NKJV)