Response from Reader

The value of dialog is that it takes two! A reader responded to my last blog "A Note About Love" concerned that I'd left out and/or misrepresented the love between a man and a woman joined in matrimony. Loved the feedback! As a single woman, I cannot describe the magnificence of such a union, but I imagine many of you can! I'm sure it would be a great encouragement to many single women to hear the beauty of love in marriage described. Make a comment! Tell us about it!

To clarify, my butterfly metaphor was not designed to imply marriage is fleeting, elusive, or unworthy of pursuit. It is to the contrary. From the beginning, God created us for relationship, not only for Himself, but also others. Recall in Genesis 2:18 that God declared it was not good for humankind to be alone. The Apostle Paul, a single man, also valued marriage. I greatly appreciate his remarks to the married and the unmarried. Being unmarried myself, I have chosen to live by his encouragement to focus solely on the Lord until such time that He chooses to bless me with a partner. He states,

"One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband" (1 Corinthians 7:32-34). 

This is where I am in my journey; everyone's path is different and that is not to imply that one is better than another. I can only comment on my path. I'm captivated by the One who saved me, the One who loved me first. My heart belongs to Him. I'm still very young in Love and not quite ready to divide my attention. I love my life and I love how God uses me in both my joy and my struggle. This is our time; I'm in the Garden. I pray that I will one day have a partner to share in the glory of God, but that time has not yet come.

So. . .to all the unmarried women who read this blog, let me leave you with a fabulous quote from Maya Angelou: "A woman's heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her."