To everything there is a season........

"I wonder what sort of tale we've fallen into." J. R. R. Tolkien 
Ever think of your life that way?  How did I ever get here? or Into this mess? or Be so blessed?  Recently we moved to the city of Brantford, and I've never been asked so many times, "Why did you move to Brantford?"  Well, I won't go into the long process of how that happened. I had actually been thinking about moving for well over 10 years. My favourite website used to be MLS.ca.  That's where you look when you are house hunting. I could have ended up in Dungannon, or Goderich, or Point Clark, or Cambridge, or Paris (Ontario, that is), or Hamilton, or Dundas but........we ended in Brantford.  Ecclesiastes 3, verse 1 says, "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven."  My journey in life has led me to Brantford and I have been blessed in this life to be a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend and a follower of Christ.  I have always been a bit of a dreamer, a daydreamer as a child. Got that comment a lot on my report cards.  A dreamer as an adult too.  Always had lots of dreams like owning a little gift shop or owning a Bed and Breakfast, or moving to Goderich and living next to the lake.  When you are younger, a lot of things seem like possibilities, but now that I've retired my dreams have changed. Maybe they've become more realistic.  Life is a journey, a story that we all have a part in. God has planted us just where we are for a purpose, for this season of life.