Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Married Life, Single Life
First off, it feels a little weird as a married person to tell you that sex is not a right. It feels a bit like a person gorging on cheesecake telling a person who’s fasting that dessert is not a right. It’s true, but it feels a little weird to say currently. That’s not to say this issue isn’t still …
Single Life
Halloween this week means that the holiday season has officially begun. It could also be called the “Single Awareness Season”. One after another Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and then Valentine’s Day will come, each with the potential to remind the single person just how single they are. It can be depressing and hard. I found it to be so at …
Christian Life, Single Life, Spiritual Disciplines
This week for my Six Week Spiritual Growth Journey that I’m doing on Facebook, I talked about Sabbath. In thinking about the benefits of Sabbath, I realized that Sabbath teaches us the very thing that I struggled with most when I was single. It’s something we all often struggle with when we have unmet desires: there’s only so much we …
Okay, I’m not going to lie. There is no way that I would ever say (based on my own experience) that being single is better than being married. I realize that both are a gift from God and God gives different gifts to different people. I’m not here to bash singleness (I was single for quite some time, thank you …
Why the loss of romantic passion might actually be a good thing (or at least not a bad one). I always knew that this would happen eventually. I was forewarned by the many dating books I read throughout high school and college, by my pre-marriage class, and by many adults throughout my life. Now it is finally here. I think …