Tag: singleness

Soul Food For Singles and Friends of Singles

August 22, 2019 /

Fridays are for sharing some of the resources I’ve come across that I think might encourage you. Happy weekending!

I have so many amazing friends who are single. Never married, divorced, widowed… Some have full, meaningful lives and vibrant community. Others feel stuck in waiting mode, longing for something different.

The two things I hear the most often from my friends who are single are:

  1. Sermons major too much on illustrations using couples or families, and not enough on singles.
  2. People who are single long to be included in groups and social gatherings with couples and families. They don’t like to be put in a box with all other singles.

A few years ago, my lovely and talented friend Claire Wyatt answered 5 Questions about Singleness for me on a blog post. You can check it out here.

North Point Community Church recently started a sermon series called, Love, Dates, and Heartbreaks. You can check it out here.

I passed this, from Bianca Althoff, along to some of my single friends:

Loneliness is not just a phenomena for singles. Maybe you need this reminder today.

Some favorites from Instagram:

Never doubt that single or married, divorced or widowed, you are fearfully and wonderfully made. You have unique gifts and are called not to find someone, but to be becoming someone who looks more like Jesus.

5 Questions About…Singleness

July 25, 2014 /

Ok, many of you reading this may not be single.  Or a woman.  But who doesn’t have single friends we want to love well?  I think this is post in our series “5 Questions About…” will be helpful for all of us.  Claire Wyatt is one of my many incredibly-talented-beautiful-inside-and-out-full-of-life single friends.  

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1.  What lies are you tempted to believe during this season of singleness?  What is God reveling to you about his character?

One of the main lies I go to is wondering if I’m single because I’m being punished, or if God is trying to teach me a lesson but in a very vindictive sense.  I have to CONSISTENTLY remind myself that God is good and that all of my sins have been taken care of on the cross.  While I might be disappointed that I’m not married, God’s plans are better than my plans.  Not only because he’s God, but because He knows me even better then I know myself.  He also loves me even more then I love myself.  If I rest in that, being single feels manageable.

2.  What has been your worst experience as a single woman? Continue reading

Dear Birthday Girl

March 19, 2014 /

Dear Birthday Girl,

Happy 2nd anniversary of your 29th birthday!  I am celebrating you with confetti and streamers, drums and kazoos and baton twirling! (Can you see it?)

You, however, may be waking up this morning wishing you had a husband and kids bringing you a tray of burnt toast, sloshing orange juice on you as they tumble into bed with you.  It’s a nice picture and it may be your picture someday, but today God has given you a different photograph.

When I look at the snapshots of you – not Instagram with fancy filters, but the candid shots when you think others aren’t looking – I see someone who is beautiful and brave, but not afraid to admit when she’s unsure.  I see a leader impacting scores of young women with the courage to speak uncomfortable truth, but the grace to hang in with them when they mess up.  I see someone who isn’t timid to ask questions and one who sets the bar high for herself.  Someone asking Jesus when to wait and when to jump.

I know people say unhelpful things like “Jesus was single.” or “God is larger in your picture because He’s all you have.”  And you want to punch them in the face. (you have my permission).  You are amazing and strong.

In you I see a unique picture, but also one with something in common with everyone everywhere. Continue reading

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