Single Servings:)

hear it in the stairwell:Guster- Amsterdam

I've had a chance in the past day to talk with various people, Christian and otherwise, about their reaction to The Passion. I can't wait to talk to more. I want to hear everyone's take and hear all sides. I've learned so much just from everyone else's thoughts and emotions and how it has changed them! God is good.



Going to the movies is hard enough when you’re on a date, but try going alone and not feeling like a freak as the couple behind you makes out. What about those infamous family outings, where your siblings bring along their significant others, and you're avoiding the lovely relative that always asks the same worn out question: “So how’s your love life, dear? So when are you going to get married and have kids like your sister?” These questions burn though the single persons psyche like hot knives.
We fall in the ''never married” category in the U.S. Census and we’re the fastest-growing group in America. In less than 30 years, our number will double, apparently pushing back the median age of marriage to the oldest it has been in our country's history—about 25 years for women and 27 for men. Now with a marketing label, advertisers can sell use single servings of Ben and Jerry's, travel agents can get us to buy that unsold seat between the old lady that drools while sleeping and the overweight guy who gets airsick, and automobile companies can create a new one seat speedster just for us. I can see it now “The Solo LE 2005—The vehicle for the romantically challenged where every seat is yours.”
I've been thinking a lot lately about if this isn’t just a phase in life for some people? What if it’s actually God’s plan for our lives to remain single? A look at the state of marriage in our society and the way couples treat each other makes the “alone” pill easy to swallow. Society’s self-centered game they call love gets worse every year-people use each other for the sake of money, affection and sex; “Relationships of convenience” where you are valuable as long as I need you.
I wonder why I waste so much time yearning over an idealized dream of love. Don't get me wrong, I truly believe that Godly, loving relationships exist all around me. But to tell you the truth, I don’t know any one who has been called to the single life. The singles I’m surrounded by on a daily basis are confident that God has a soul mate for them in the future. And so am I. But if you’re single, and have heard of the Apostle Paul, then you know that the calling is real and biblical. It should be considered as a possibility.
We feel that if we’re alone that we will NEVER experience the pleasures, security and fulfillment of marriage, while our friends around us celebrate anniversaries and raise families. But maybe that’s the problem, it’s our dream, and we have pushed God out.
If the Bible is true and God is omniscient, faithful and loving, why do we fear that He can’t build a better life for us than we can? Why do we trust God for the foundation and take on the rest of the structure ourselves? Is His timing not perfect? Don’t wait for life to happen to you. God came to give us life to the fullest, that's for the currently singles and the happily marrieds! Maybe you’re one of the selected to temporary lease the Solo LE 2005 but are afraid to take it out of the garage and see what kind of power is in the engine. Go ahead and get on the road.