Here is the final installment in our Single-Minded series–for the present! Thanks to your wonderful outpouring we’ll be resuming it in April, after our jam-packed March of Books. We have many more fabulous ‘singleness sketches’ queued up, and I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone of you who has joined in and shared…
Archive | February, 2010
Single-Minded, Part Three
It has been so exciting to see the responses come in to our query about how you singles are investing your time. Not to mention tremendously encouraging to get a sampling of all the manifold ways you are pouring your hearts and lives into the Kingdom! Your generosity in sharing has been overwhelming–so much so…
The March of Books
Have you read any good books lately? If not, you’d better hit the local library or visit Paperback Swap, or because we’re planning a “March of Books” for the month of March. Not only do we have at least a half dozen book reviews and two double book giveaways coming here on ylcf.org, but we’re…
Single-Minded, Part Two
Last week I asked you singles to weigh in on what your days look like and what you’re doing with this season of your lives, to be compiled into a post at the end of this month. But the response we received was just too good to confine to one piece! Here’s a first sampling,…
The Promise
by Elisabeth Allen May I be honest? “The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” is that—take a deep breath—the pain of singleness is real…deep…persistent. I hate to admit it, but when I was in my teens, I whined about singleness. I wanted to marry “my childhood sweetheart.” I didn’t, actually, have such…
Reality and Valentine’s Day
originally written February 2007 As I sit here planning a candlelight Valentine’s dinner with my love, I think back on the conversation I had a few days ago with my single sister-in-law. Her Bible school class on marriage has given her a lot to think about. I couldn’t tell her the teacher was wrong. I…
The Man I Prayed For
Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid, (as we’re inclined to do) I do not need a handsome man But let him be like You; I do not need one big and tall Nor need he be some genius Or wealthy, Lord, at all; But let his head be high, dear God, And let his eye…
Single-Minded
As I type this, I am sitting at my husband’s desk at his office, waiting for his engineering day to end so that we can moonlight as a couple of painters. We have the company break room in our sights and I’m lobbying for a crazy shock of red to replace the tired gray of…
Blooming
by Christine Brown Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. -Jim Elliot Don’t strain your eyes to see the future – for you will not be able to see clearly what God wants you to see now. -Elisabeth Elliot Looks like the…
The Best Piece of Advice
Last fall, a YLCF reader named Amanda asked me some fun and thought-provoking questions for an interview over at Feelin’ Feminine. The one that really gave me pause was this: “What is the best advice you have ever received?” Not just the best advice I’d read, or the best advice I’d given, but the best…
