Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Single Life
I know the single life is really tough. I still remember. I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t do everything well when I was single. I fell into some traps that lead to heartbreak and mistakes. Many times, falling into a trap was caused by me deciding to settle. There are many ways that you can settle. Sometimes …
Sex, Single Life
Can we just be real for a second? Modern romance is hard, especially if you are a Christian trying to live in a way that’s honoring to God. I think (and there are researchers and several books that agree with me) that dating and finding a marriage partner is more difficult now in some ways than it’s ever been. All …
Recommended Books, Single Life
When I have a life problem, the first thing I do is find all the best books on the subject. Being single felt like a problem to me, so I read quite a few books on the topic of singleness, relationships, and dating. Not all of them were great. Actually, a few of them were pretty crappy. However, there are …
Single Life
Maybe the hardest part of singleness is not being able to pinpoint why you’re still single. You just want to know what it is that’s keeping you from entering relational bliss. If you knew that, you could fix it and move on with your life. It can be really easy to go down a blackhole of all the reasons you’re …
Christian Life, Single Life
In my humble opinion, February is the worst month (you can read more about my feelings here). You just want winter to be over, but it’s still in full force. If you’re single, February can be a terrible month for another reason: February means Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day means an awkward day where you don’t have any special someone to …
Single Life
My whole life, I’ve heard people say “marriage is hard.” To be honest, this slightly confused me for quite some time. What’s hard about being married? Sure, you’re bound to have some disagreements and such and go through some hard things in life. However, those things aren’t unique to marriage. You can have disagreements with your family or your roommate. …
Single Life
My husband and I have been looking at houses since February. It’s been an interesting process. The market where we live in the Portland area is absolutely crazy. Prices are high and there’s a lot of competition (like one house we looked at got 16 offers in one weekend). Despite that, we found one on Monday, put in an offer …
Christian Life, Married Life, Sex, Single Life
Let’s be clear here: purity is not only for single people. Despite that fact, if you looked a Christian books, sermons, and other resources that talk about purity, the vast majority of them would be geared towards singles. A good chunk of them would probably be geared towards the youth group/college age crowd. When we see purity as simply …
Sex, Single Life
Dear Single Friends, First off, I want you to know that I thought about you last week during Valentine’s Day. I still remember how that felt, to be single on that sappiest of all days. Everybody in person and online praising their significant other can be hard to watch when you don’t have someone to praise. It’s hard, I know. …
Married Life, Single Life, Theology
Every Disney princess movie pretty much ends the same way: said princess and her prince charming ride off into the sunset. From this, we assume that all their problems were permanently solved and they stay married forever. You don’t really think about how their life progresses or how it ends. Married Life Is Still Unpredictable The truth is that life …