Today’s post in this series on singleness and the church is a guest post by my friend and neighbor, Erin Thompson. “Nana_Na_Na. Nana_Na_Na. Hey_Hey_Goodbye.” If you are single, it is very likely you just can’t wait till February 15th. When the teddy bears come off the shelves and the roses fade away. When the impending…
i have a friend who has wrestled with God for a really long time about being single. at one point, he truly felt that the Lord was asking him to surrender his dreams for a family, and learning to live in the tension between honestly wanting to surrender and yet not being super-happy about it…
I was out to dinner with three of my (single guy) friends awhile ago, and (as inevitably seems to happen in groups of single people) The Subject came up. “There’s this girl…” They’d been spending a lot of time together; he was pretty sure she was into him; he really just wanted to be friends….
Can I tell you something, just between us? This song drives me crazy: It drives me crazy because it strikes a dissonant chord in my heart. It resonates within my spirit, and stirs up things I don’t want to feel. It reminds me that for oh! so long, I have been waiting for “Superman” to show…
— 1 — Time to decompress. If you’re new to Simple Felicity and wondering what “7 Quick Takes” are – they’re just 7 quick notes, generally either about something happening in my world, or things that I’m thinking about, that aren’t necessarily full-length-post worthy. They’re also super-fun because 7 Quick Takes is hosted by Jennifer…
