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Chapter 8: Confidence: God’s Timing Is Perfect
Another candlelit birthday rolled around, but I didn’t freak out turning the big 3-0. My friends took me out for a festive dinner, and my...
Chapter 7: Captivated:
God’s Kindness Through Community Seasonal Friendships The constancy of change—that is a lesson no one ever had to teach me growing...
Considering Lessons From My Youth
Do you remember your first crush? It always took me a bit to catch on to my own emotions, but eventually I pieced the clues together. My...
Chapter 5: The Seed of Hope
As an English major, I’ve always held a deep love for stories, especially children’s literature. One classic that’s etched in my memory is...
Contemplating: Was My Perspective Off?
One of the blessings that followed graduation came in the form of three close friends who, like me, remained single for the next five...
Chapter Three: Comparing
Comparison. Comparison is the cousin of complaining, but unlike the latter, comparison is not always bad. For example, Paul told the...
Complaining: Why Do I Have to Be Single?
A complainer–someone who whines incessantly and carries a woe-is-me complex; it’s a description we never want to be true of ourselves, and...
Chapter One: The Unsought Journey
Maybe, like me, singleness wasn’t what you had planned for your life. Maybe you are one of those five- or ten-year planners, and you've...
Filled With Contentment or Comparison?
In our age of technology, we are bombarded with picture upon picture of the “good life”— the idyllic home, the growing family, the...
Filled With Anticipation or Apathy?
Maybe your introduction to the Magi of Matthew 2 was similar to mine—more musical than theological. As a child, the Christmas carol, “We...
Filled with Wonder or Fear?
Fear is an emotion common to man, so common that the command most often repeated in Scripture is some form of “fear not.” But, fear isn’t...










