All my single ladies

Click on the title to bring you to a blog post from Modern Reject, a Christian blogger who is both a wife and a mom.

"You should read Modern Reject if you are a truth-seeking, no B.S., Jesus-loving ninja. Plain and simple. If you desire freedom, like me, yous should read. If you believe in being Spirit-led, not blindly-led, you should read." - Modern Reject

This post is about "Surrendering Your Desire for a Spouse", written by a single guy who is now not single anymore, but wrote this post when he was still single. He was struggling to come to terms with his singleness.

"What does it mean to surrender my desire for a wife?

• Does it mean I pretend I don’t have a desire for a future wife?
• Does it mean I stop talking to girls?
• Does it mean I date Jesus?

I don’t think it means any of those things.

Surrender means to cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority. The hardest part of surrendering, for me, is giving up control.

[...]This even applies to marriage. Think about it.

Marriage will require surrendering many of my personal desires for a time. But when I’m willing to surrender my own desires for the moment, my desires actually end up being met even more completely than I could have expected." - Darrell Vesterfelt

When you're done with this one, read some of the other posts on this blog! They're really good

Top 5 Lies Christians Believe
Free Sin Day
Confession: I didn't wait til marriage...
Who Has It Easier, Men or Women?
Introvert is NOT a Dirty Word
Surrendering Sucks

Relevant Magazine Article

I read this really insightful article in Relevant Magazine recently and I wanted to share it with you. It's about sex (gasp!!) specifically premarital sex (double gasp!) I hope it gives you a new perspective, like it did for me.

-P.

being like Jesus

I'd like to think I'm a pretty patient person in general.

What drives me funky is when people ask me a question/for advice...and they don't consider it. That is actually fine. It's only after when they ask me the same thing, over and over and we're just going around in circles. I don't know..maybe they just want to have someone to listen to them?

1) they are mainly guys, guys with low self-esteem

2) apparently i'm not a therapist

3) when they are non-christian, I have even less to say because we have a huge chunk that isn't in common

maybe it's my time to share the gospel with them?

but you know what's annoying?

You try to be a good reflection of Jesus, you care about people because you love them. But I as a girl will not go spending extra time talking to a guy about his esteem problems (that I cant even help him with). And also cause I don't want to lead him on.

So what am I supposed to do? Tell him to see a therapist? I did.

Tell him to hang out with his guy friends? I did, and he has few.

How am I supposed to act like Jesus when I have to tell someone to back off, cause I can't help him and I can't be some crutch he leans on?