Why I won't be celebrating "Single Awareness Day" this year.

Dear friend,


I have made a very big decision this last week.



I will not be celebrating "Single Awareness Day" this year.



WHAT?!?!?! You say?


Nope.


I can't.




I just. can't.


It has been decided.


Coming from the perspective of a very single 20-something young lady, who has never really dated, never been kissed, and never really been sure of herself for 20-something years,

I can tell you....this is a BOLD move.


I am very aware that I am single.

And I have never really had a problem with it.


SURE, there are the girls who really really REALLY want to be married.

And I COMMEND them.


They have a God-given desire, and I believe that God will bless those desires.


But I have never really been that girl.

Sure, I have liked guys.

Been "interested".


Thought they were CuUuUuUuuute.



But for a long LONG time, I have been ok with singleness.


Until recently.


God has really welled up this desire for marriage really REALLY recently.


Kind of like "I'm now on my own now, have my own job, and have to pay my own bills for the rest of my life, and I really don't want to do this alone. It would be nice to have a life-long friend, partner, bestie, LOVER."


I have never really been that girl. That girl who lives for the "Mrs" degree.
Who solely desires a big house, four children, and a long life of marriage bliss.

I think it's great.


But I think it can really go too far sometimes.


ESPECIALLY in the south.



Sometimes I feel like most of the Christian women in the south only desire one thing:
MARRIAGE.


Again, this is a God-given desire. And I think it's AWESOME.


But when all you can think about is who you're gonna marry, when you're gonna get married, and how many children you're gonna have,

I think you are cutting yourself WAY short.



And more than that, you are idolizing the one thing that God has given us as a representation of His covenant love.

And I don't want that to be a selfish love.


So the more I want it, the more I am THANKFUL.



I am thankful because I know how much marriage will never satisfy me.


I am thankful because I know how much MORE I need Jesus in this time of unfulfilled earthly desire.


I am thankful because I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that the more I desire marriage, the more I will seek to desire HIM. Because He is the real lover, and I am the real beloved.


Dear friend,

If you are single, join with me in not celebrating Single Awareness Day this year.
If you are married, join with me in not celebrating Valentines Day this year.

Let us celebrate "Single Thankfulness Day" and "Marriage Thankfulness Day",

because I believe that we are to be thankful FOR BOTH.

But I believe that Jesus is the only one REALLY worth waiting for.

"Because He is my portion, I will wait for Him."
Lamentations 3:24



I wait for Him alone.


So come on beloved,

Let us be thankful for our singleness or for our marriage this February 14th.


Because in both, we are blessed.


Because HE is our portion. He ALONE is worth the wait.



HAVE JOY.


He is the fulfillment of every desire.



So WAIT.



Forever His,
Rach