It’s a topic I’ve pondered a lot in my life: singleness vs. marriage.  I’ve been single, well, awhile.  I have lots of single friends to talk about this with.  I’ve had lots of friends who have journeyed through being single into being married.

Being such a large life issue, it’s something that tends to be revisited often, re-worked, re-thought as new life situations happen in and around me and those that I know.  I’ve listened to sermons, taken advice, read books, and pr-ed a lot about it.  Probably it would be the same were I married: it’s a part of life that needs constant evaluation to be brought into the light of truth.  Relational areas are places where we need great grace and serious sanctification.  They are areas where we can bring much glory to G as He is seen working in us.

That being said, I believe I see growth in my life in my handling of this area.  At least, a light bulb has gradually been starting to glow that now seems to shed a lot more light than I used to have.  I want to let you in on some thoughts that I’ve had recently.  Be aware: 1) I’m a work in progress, and 2)this is long. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes someone recommends something to you, a sermon or a book or a blog or a movie, and you put off reading or watching or listening to it.  Then later, when you finally get around to whatever it was, you find that the timing, even through seemingly random delay, was perfect.   Read the rest of this entry »

The second week of vacation was vastly different than the first week.  Mostly because, instead of going out adventuring every day and meeting students, I spent every day, save one, home sick with Angel Cat.  It was not a serious sickness, merely an annoying sickness, to use a friend’s helpful classification.  Between the headaches, body aches, dizziness and extreme tiredness, I watched Lost.  I finished five seasons of the show in a little over 2 weeks, just in time for the premiere of season 6.  But now I am a little sick of them all– the Lost characters, I mean.

Thankfully, I recovered enough to spend yesterday with some dear friends.  It was a day of  challenging conversations,  good food, shared laughter, and faster internet.  I returned home way too late last night but very thankful for His grace being displayed to me through the patience and kindness and love and growth of others.  Then I stayed up WAY too late thinking and suffering from a caffeine overdose.  For the first time in such a long time, I didn’t fall asleep until 4 a.m.    This  caused a bit of a flu (or whatever) relapse today, coupled with the fact that my cat still thinks I need to be up early no matter when I went to bed.  So, I sit here, blogging like a goofball at 9 p.m.  in my pajamas with a headache.

I’m really blessed.

I could write and write and write about the interesting things that happened to me this week, but I will spare you by summarizing.

My first week of vacation was characterized by meeting with a different student each day and eating and then having a fun “adventure”.  I got more creative after too much shopping.  So here are the top interesting adventures of my week. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve very limited experience with cats.  Apparently, I don’t count as a “cat person.”  Since three official cat people have told me this, then I have to believe it is true.  For this I blame my dad.  (I can relate to you the sad story of my first cat Blackie when I was only four or five years old, if you really want to know.)  But anyway… My family had the same two dogs for most of my life: one for 12 years and the other for 16 years.  We also had three or four litters of puppies.  Dogs, even random dogs I don’t know, usually like me.  When a dog acts a certain way, I usually know why or what to do.  But cats, cats are a mystery to me. Read the rest of this entry »