Singleness

My former roommate came over for a quick lunch on my birthday and started a good chat on singleness. It got me thinking I might write a blog up about it, but she beat me to it! Take a look at her well-written piece on writing to be real.

Then I was talking to a good friend on the phone who is at a crossroads in her life. She said,

"I could pretty much do ANYTHING! Is that weird or what?"

"No, that's not weird at all," I laughed. "It happens to me all the time. It's called singleness."

"I know!" she groaned. "Why can't I just get married and have 5 kids? It can't be THAT hard! Tons of people do it! The only conclusion I've come to is that I'm not married right now because the Lord doesn't want me to be. Why not???"

Why am I not married? I hear this longing in so many of my single friends––who are NOT, may I add, the "single for a reason" type. You know what I mean. Married people and older people ask me that a lot, too: "Why aren't you married? You're a pretty little thing. How come you haven't been snatched up?" As if ugliness were the only excuse for not being married.

Been having lots of thoughts on singleness lately, and maybe I'll get back around to the topic, maybe not. We'll see....

OSAAT

Trying to get myself to bed at a decent hour tonight, but I wanted to quickly repost the Mennonite doxology I grew up with (posted Oct 1 but in case it got lost in all the text, here it is again). Posting it because my heart is full of praise as I crawl into bed tonight.

Tonight I am thankful to announce that I have a flatmate. I've had a few scary evenings here, so I'm glad not to be alone anymore. Yesterday I was thinking, surely we can't handle knowing our future––good or bad––it's too much information for us to handle well. It has been good to watch things unfold one step at a time and to be mostly comfortable with not knowing more. And God has been so faithful and so good in His provisions, why do I ever feel a need to know more than one step at a time? I am also enjoying so very much to be settling in somewhere indefinitely. I am weary of travel (but will be on the road again for 4-5 weeks). One. Step. At. A. Time.

Sleepover

One does not need to be completely settled before one starts having visitors. That's what I think, anyway. Take away entertaining and I can't survive! Thursday night I reunited with my dear friend Aileen after 5 years, and Friday night 3 teenagers joined our sleepover.

Fun times. Some of us were up a little later than others. :) Ok, Anya and I were.

Left: Friday night.

Below: Saturday morning/day.