i had intended to write a really abstract post about this – a post that joked about the dichotomy between the two main perspectives that seem to exist for single Christians: “pity us!” “we are not to be pitied!” because if we are totally honest, those of us who are single can find ourselves thinking each…
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…
What is the absolute hardest thing about being a single Christian? Well – if we all had to sum it up collectively, we’d probably have to go with, “Um… being single?” There are likely actually hundreds of answers to that question, dependent on age, gender, culture, personality, and other circumstances; even in my own life,…
— 1 — It’s been a quiet week here at Simple Felicity, but I promise it isn’t because I’m not working on anything. If you missed the announcement earlier this month, I’m planning a series in February on “singleness and the Church.” I’ve never actually written a whole series before, and it’s taken some planning…
At the beginning of January, I joined the OneWord365 Community and chose “compassion” as my one word for the year. I knew it was going to cost me something. What I didn’t really register is that one of the things it will cost is my pride. The first thing I’ve learned about compassion is how…
