Two things I’m praying for marriage/singleness

May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Yesterday I processed why we should want marriage or singleness at all.

Today I thought I’d share some of the implications of those thoughts on my prayer life.  I spent some good time yesterday praying for:

(1) An undivided heart in singleness and an obsession to:

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Father, I pray that you would help me not to waste this season of singleness.  Let me invest in those around me with as much vigor as mother invests in her children: with passion, prayer and love for those who are your lost sheep.

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Filed Under: Fighting discontentment, Relationships, Singleness

Why get married at all

May 20, 2013 By 1 Comment

I hear that question a lot.

Whenever I’m around a married woman trying to break singles of their delusions of marriage by emphasizing the burdens, I hear the single women mumble and whisper to one another: if marriage is so miserable why would we want it?  why get married

The past month or so I have been kind of crazy about Jesus.  (Like deeply satisfying-ly in love with Him.)  A fear has crept into my heart that I’ve voiced aloud to a few friends: does this new-found joy and peace mean that I’m ‘called’ to singleness?

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4 more reasons I’m glad I read a book for men

May 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Yesterday I shared a couple of the things I learned from reading The Real Win.  Here are four more thoughts triggered by the book:

3. Men’s sins reveal women’s sins.

There’s a section of the book where Matt and Colt walk through some specific sin struggles that men sometimes face.  As I was reading them I found it pretty hard not to mentally scribble the names of men I know in the margins.

Turns out, reading about the struggles of men managed to highlight for me one of the major struggles of women: comparison.

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Filed Under: God's promises, Ministry, Relationships

2 reasons I’m glad I read a book for men

May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment

A couple of things you should know about my pastor:

  • He can catch birds with his bare hands.
  • He’s sort of an internet sensation right now because he can catch birds with his bare hands.
  • He just wrote a book with Colt McCoy and it’s pretty great.

I felt a little strange picking it up since it’s called The Real Win: A man’s quest for authentic success.  Despite what some of my blog readers have said, I am not a man.  And I’m not really on a quest for authentic success.Real win

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Filed Under: God's promises, Ministry, Relationships

Angst & Elliot

April 11, 2013 By 3 Comments

I’m feeling angsty today.

It might be that I’m listening to Patty Griffin.

It might be that I just finished re-reading Elisabeth Elliot’s Passion and Purity.

It might be that I’m in an airplane thousands of feet above the earth.Jim-ElisabethWedding

Traveling always does a little something to my insides. It’s like it gives me room to step out of my life for just a moment and view it from an entirely different angle, and I love the reflection, I love the angst and consideration of it all.

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Filed Under: Fighting discontentment, Relationships, Singleness
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