Talk about things to come, sweet dreams and flying machines

Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
I just can't remember who to send it to.

I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again.

Won't you look down upon me, Jesus
You've got to help me make a stand
You've just got to see me through another day
My body's aching and my time is at hand
And I won't make it any other way.

My back turned towards the sun
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it’ll turn your head around
Well, there’s hours of time on the telephone line
To talk about things to come
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you, baby, one more time again, now
Thought I'd see you one more time again
There's just a few things coming my way this time around, now
Thought I'd see you, thought I'd see you fire and rain, now.

-James Taylor "Fire and Rain"

Robin sent me a fantastic James Taylor mix and I've always loved this song. All last week I was listening to it over and over again because I think it's one of my Turkey theme songs.

I'm too tired to post about Rome now and I think it would be negative anyway...so I won't do it.

I will say God was good last week. Before Italy, one night I sat with A after dinner was over and all the others had left. At first we were just talking about things with the kids but then I started asking her some things about her life and what not and she confided in me! She told me she had starting thinking about quitting work so she could spend more time with the kids, but it was just between the two of us. I told her I would pray for her and she said "yes, do that." I was so excited! Something specific to pray for!

Just now I went in to ask her for tomorrow off but I asked her how her class went first (the one she takes every Wednesday night to get internationally certified) and she said it was fine. I asked her how long she had to do it."Four years."
"One down?"
"Yeah...maybe I should just quit everything."
So we talked about it again and I asked her if she had talked to D yet about it. She said no, that she wants to wait until she knows how she feels about it...which made me sad. I would hope that when I'm married, it's to one of my dearest friends and I will force him to give his opinion on things such as the preferred brand of peanut butter to keep in the house or whether or not my cooking was too burnt...so obviously, I would assume he would be the very first person I would seek out in HUGE LIFE DECISIONS! I asked her if she could talk to some of the people in her class to get their opinion. "but it's my opinion that matters."
"Yes but, they're going through the same thing you are so they relate to where you're coming from. Sometimes it's nice to talk to other people, and besides it's an awful heavy thing to carry all by yourself."
"But if I tell them I might quite and word gets out people become very competitive...so basically, I don't have anyone I can trust."
"well, that's....unfortunate."
Isn't that sad?

And A called Sirin to ask her something and she didn't know and A hung up, "I should have known better than to think she would know something."
"God bless her."
"I don't think so."
"God blesses everyone."
"Yes I do...even the 'slow and useless'".
"Hmph."

I sense turmoil inside her now...and I can't figure out the best way to love her knowing that...especially after just spending five days straight with her, sure itwas enough to have me quit right there.