So, I was told by an overseas student from China that today is ‘Singles Day’. I asked what they did to ‘celebrate’ and she said her single friends would get together and complain about being single and some would even go on blind dates to try and end their single days. I guess it really depends on your definition of single and how you view your single years. For me, I’m actually going to take the time today to really celebrate being single :).
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I see the single years as a gift from God, a time to grow and stretch and to be ALL I can be as a single woman and when/if I reach that point in my life where God says, ‘You can serve me better with another’, then I’ll change my tune :). To me, being single isn’t a status, it’s a season. A season of possibilities and potential; potential because your time is your own and there are no limitations on what God can do in you and through you. It’s a season where you can learn to depend on God fully and completely and I believe that this is best done while you are still single because you won’t be distracted by having another ‘significant other’ in your life. You don’t have to match your times with someone else’s schedule or take on another’s burden too close to heart. There’s a certain freedom that comes with this season that I find extremely rewarding and personally wouldn’t like to have it any other way right now. To my ‘attached-friends’, please don’t think I’m hating on you or bitter, it’s quite the contrary in fact :). I don’t think being single is better necessarily… I think there’s beauty and purpose behind each season of your life and whether that is being single or being in a relationship right now, you can either be the best you can be or complain, wanting something that isn’t God’s best for you right now. There’s a time for everything under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3).
Ames: The Acoustic Version 