Dating game begins

Well,
I think it's time to open myself up for more options in where the direction of my life's desires may be headed.

I know I have the Lord's Hand on me in all I do, but I also have others who have to give their opinions.
In listening to some, I hate to admit this, but maybe, just maybe, they are right in saying I might need some helping hands in the form of a male partner.
Just because things did not work out w/my marriage doesn't mean that my whole life has to be lived in solitude.

So, thanks to the internet form of dating, I won't have to go to the smokey bar scene
that I know won't produce anthing but grief. (I am sooooo glad I don't do that any more.)

So, LOL, not that I am trying to be too particular
but I am requesting certain criteria that needs to be strict in responses.
Devised this intro...

figure it will help weed out the unnecessary reponses.

What ya think.
Put this into a on-line dating thingy.

Sorry if this is alittle long.
Just want to save you some time and trouble.
This is me and it will help in your decision.
I am a grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and daughter.
I love my family. I want to end up sometime, someday in the future closer to where my family is located and that is on the east coast.

My match would be a man who can stand strong in his beliefs. A man who is not afraid to commit and stand by that commitment no matter what the world may throw at us as a couple.
A man who can be honest about who their inner self really is, know what that self needs in life and go after it and take me with him.
A man who can be a big teddy bear yet protect me from the worlds hurts and disappointments.
Someone who put his strong arms around me and tell me "it's ok.
I gotcha, everything is gonna be all right, now" on a bad day.
I have always enjoyed the country living, having a garden to run out and grab something fresh for dinner.
Grow flowers, herbs, attract wildlife just so I can watch nature enjoy itself around me.
I have enjoyed horses in pleasure and in the business of racehorses.
I have always enjoyed riding( not had the opportunity to do so lately), pretended to be a cowgirl for the better part of my life. Just never had a cowboy on the same wave-length as me.
I have always wanted to be able to visit other areas of this world. I traveled for 30 years but it was always for business not pleasure.
Never had the opportunity to leave the states except for Canada.

Since leaving the horse industry, I have learned to live a much simpler life.
I have learned to enjoy what I need rather than the things I want.
It would be nice to have such another person in my world that can appreciate the simpler joys of what life has to offer rather than trying to keep up with the Jones's of this world.
I have learned to not control everything in my life.
There is a Greater being doing that very nicely, Thank You

That is also very big on my list of importance.
I need a man who can be my spiritual leader and walk strong in our beliefs.
Follow the path and purpose together that we are here for.
Help me to learn more spiritually and stay on the path of righteousness that is expected of us in order to be blessed with a long, good, happy life with each other.

I am an adult woman who does not smoke or drink and I prefer not to be around anyone who does indulge.
I have found I don't want or need all that to enjoy what life is all about.
I am a woman who once was overly self concious of my looks and tried to keep other people happy by trying to be someone I was not.
Now I am a mature woman with no games or baggage. With maturity comes a lot of changes.
I am not as fit as I used to be, I am not short or slender.
I am tall.
I have a few extra pounds, that does not take away from who my inner self is.
If you need all the outer beauty that most of you seem to be looking for, the high maintenance woman I choose not to be any longer, than I am not who you are looking for.
I have been around a few extremely handsome and beautiful people in my life, but their actions made them very ugly in the end.
I carry myself with respect.
I know who I am.
I am A woman that has a desire to just enjoy the remaining years of my life with someone who can be honest, faithful, loving and appreciate who I AM and who I CANNOT be.
By the way, I think it would be totally cool to learn how to drve a harley instead of sitting behind someone.
A granny riding a Harley down the highway, hair blowing in the wind. Yuppers, I could do that.
Some say I have had a radical re-birth because I am now standing strong with Jesus by my side and loving every minute of it.
I am still learning to walk the walk, I have found that you don't have to become a preacher or a teacher.
All you have to do is shine for Him and the rest comes easy.
Live and love by example.
All that entails is to be willing do the do's and don't do the don'ts.
Love me for who I am, a hard-working, happy, honest, straight-forward, dependable, compassionate, passionate, laid-back country girl at heart wanting the simpler life with same type of man.
Not into games, life is to short.
You never know what plans has been set forth for us.
I am looking for the doors that the Lord is opening for me.
I have decided to put my foot thru the door, just need someone to take my hand and help me the rest of the way.