I'm loving me again and it feels good. It took one of my youth girls saying she missed "me" to realize I'm getting back to "me". I'm wrapping my arms around my barrenness (sp?) and I'm embracing my singleness because as David Platt says...
"Biblically, Singleness is exceptional". "Marriage displays Christ’s sacrificial love for the Church and her subsequent submissiveness. Singleness reveals that a Christian’s identity is in Christ, not another human, and it portrays that aChristian’s eternal identification is with the Church."
How awesome is that. God has a purpose for us and it makes me happy to know that in the last 10 years I've really been able to grow and do things as a person that I may not have done with attachments. Listening to devo's at workcamp last week really drove home to me that I'm doing what God has planned for me.
Is being single and barren always the best part of my day? No it's not. If we were living in biblical times then those would be two of the worst things that could happen to a woman. If I'm not careful then I easily get caught up in the barren part and feel myself having a lot more sad moement than happy one's. It's not easy watching your friends have babies and wondering when it will be your time, but then I remember how much more of a blessing it will be when it is God's timing. God loves me so much that he decided I would be much better at being a mother to the motherless.
He never said this journey would be easy, only that we wouldn't have to go it alone. Luckily I have God on my side as well as a wonderful group of family and friends.
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