Or, as my roommate lovingly refers to it, "Singles Awareness Day."
Despite spending today single, I was determined to remind myself and everyone I could that God is all we need.
I plastered pictures, statuses, and wall posts all over Facebook.
I'm a huge fan of cheesy sayings, so I loved the thought of God saying, "Be mine?"
I found a picture that said "So you want to find love? Just find God." Yes. Yes, it went up.
One of my favorite verses from 1 Corinthians was posted also: "A woman who is not married or a girl who has never married is busy with the Lord's work. She wants to be holy in body and spirit." (chapter 7 verse 34)
The older I get, the more I realize that I'm different from others my age (or even those a few years older than me) when it comes to romance.
You see a sunset, and wish you had someone there to share it with you.
I see a sunset, and think about the Creator that shared it with me.
I'm used to being single. I'm HAPPY being single.
This isn't one of those "female power", I'm totally independent and don't need a man blogs.
(Okay, except for the "I don't need a man" part ;) )
I've learned that a man isn't going to complete me. I've learned that having a boyfriend (or maybe eventually, a husband) isn't going to satisfy me.
People are going to let you down. They're going to "stop" loving you, they will not be available every time you need them, they won't say the right thing at the right time.
It happens.
BUT
God will always love you. He's there every time you need Him. He says the right thing every time, even when you don't know you need to hear it.
I'm trying to explain to you the magnitude of what I've learned the past few years.
I'm trying to help you understand how DEEP, how WIDE, how LONG, and how HIGH God's love really is.
But you can't fit all that into a blog.
Today, I had dinner with our one of our school librarians. She's a nice enough lady. She can hold up a conversation on her own (even if no one at the table is paying attention). If you're willing to listen, though, you might actually find some pearls in the things she says.
Tonight, she was talking about being single and dating. Since this is obviously one of my favorite topics, I paid close attention and ended up asking how she and her husband met.
"Well, I was actually single until I was 34. Most of my friends wanted relationships or were in them, but I was satisfied with being single. By that age, I had decided that God probably wanted for me to be single for my life. But I was happy with that."
Wow. I've talked before about being single for life before. Hearing that "single at age 34" was someone else's reality made it a reality for me.
But.. when most people would hear that story and think, "wow, that's so sad for her..."
that wasn't the way she looked at it at all. She was hopeful - not for eventually getting married, but excited for God's plans with her singleness. She was completely satisfied with God.
Honestly, if I could be like that when I'm older - so completely satisfied in God that it doesn't MATTER if I'm single or married - I don't think there could be a calling more worthwhile.
What would happen if we didn't keep our hearts hidden away from God? What would happen if we recklessly abandoned our love lives to God?
Every morning, God asks: "Be mine?"
What if we answered, "Completely."?
"Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires." -Psalm 37:4
What would happen if we took delight in the Lord not to receive the desires of our hearts, but to have our desires transformed to God's desires?
Maybe then we would receive what our souls truly desire... and it won't matter if we're single...
We have God.
Now tell me - what MORE could a person need?
