Security

I feel like the feature that I desire the most as a single girl that married women have is clear security. Now, I know that's not entirely true. That being married isn't a sure guaranty to security but it is nice to be able to go to someone when your car breaks down for help and solutions or even just to hug you. As a single girl it's hard to find it or have it at all in your life. I know there are fathers and brothers that are willing and able to provide and help in any means possible (and fir that matter they will probably continue to care for you in different ways after you are married) but they have a life of their own and a family of their own, at a curtain point you aren't their responsibility.
This being said there is something so amazing and wonderful to say about relying completely on God for all your needs. The practical "fix your car" needs, the crazy work situations for comfort, the uncertainty of where rent will come from and what direction your life is being built in. For me fear can consume my life, in every area there is uncertainty of what will come next and how situations will be worked through and I feel the lack of security strongly. Still, to know God will provide. To stand solely on this truth is frightening , yet can be so fulfilling. God always provides in miraculous ways. It may be completely different then how you pictured things turning out but He works all and I mean ALL things out for your good. When you stand so utterly set apart from others that He's the only one holding you up in desperate situations this is when you learn what true security is and feels like. To rely so completely on God and Him alone. It's when you learn how to act rightly, He deals with the fear and your stubbornness in these moments. He shows you how to submit and stand securely in His arms as a girl. It's unbelievable valuable as an example of how to act one day to your husband. Still, more importantly its acting in relationship with Him. It's intimacy with Him, it's learning to clearly hear His voice and His voice only. It's learning to let Him love you.
When you are single you can have the most desperate loneliness and uncertainty you will ever feel. Yet, if you take the time to not take your own path by forging through terrible hard things but to submit to God in this season it will be the anchor of the rest of your life and you will know stability and security that can bring a nation to its knees. You could not only change your life (mainly because its a give in that you'll become more like Him) but you'll effect the world around you drastically.
All this to say I will embrace the circumstance before me knowing its the season God has placed me in with a design in mind. Knowing He gives me only that which I can handle and that till He adds I'm happy with what I have as well as secure in Him.
I'm secure in Him.

Nights at Toad Hall

Monday nights are reason enough to have joy in this season.

Alone

I get as much quiet time as I could of ever needed. It is something I don't give myself enough of. Time to sit, to read and enjoy the quiet. The refreshment of God.
I resolve to reenergize myself in this season. To meet God in the quiet moments that I won't always be able to have as freely as I do right now.

Joy

Sorry about that random thoughts that are about to happen. But its the bunny trail my brain tends to go down.
I love because God loves me. I'm kind because God is kind to me. I know mercy and grace and can give it to others because God extends grace and mercy to me.
I know freedom because God has set me free.
Free.
That's what I have as a single girl. Freedom in so many areas of my life. Freedom to go and be myself.
It's weird to think how little I know of myself. I don't know what suits me. What I like and what I want changes frequently. Yet I still don't fully know who I am. This season is the only season where I'll get to be fully who I am in God. To learn who He created me to be with no division in me.
I was knit together with purpose, with a destiny. Im only learning who I am and still God knows everything about me from who I was, am and can become in Him. Still, fir me everything in new.
I sometimes feel like a well kept room that was forgotten. Left to collect dust. I know I've felt like its a season of waiting. But its not. It's a season filled with love. Filled with time. Freedom. To know myself. To learn about myself.
The reality is waiting can be hard. But waiting with God in this season can be a journey. Filled with love and joy and peace. A game of learning who I am. Who I'm growing into. To learn sacrifice and patience.
To know Gods love and be fully satisfied in Him and Him alone. That's what this season is all about. I'm sure ever season after this will be filled with the same thing. But this season is the first. The freest to rest fully in Gods embrace and have hardly any distractions from Him.
That's what I do in this season. In being single.

January - celebrating singleness

Singleness has a bad rep. I've had countless conversations with women who are beyond beautiful inside and out, who find themselves in the "one ticket please" category. Sometimes, this makes them sad. Since this is a place for celebrating, I'll leave two suggestions.

1) Buy popcorn
2) Sit wherever you want

I am so grateful today for this: to be wholly devoted to the love that never
ever
ever
ever
fails.

"...the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus"

1 Timothy 1:14

Celebrating Celebration

2012-2013

In view of this blog's dedication of celebrating celebration all year, I thought it would be fitting to include some tid bits from the New Year that it was birthed in!

Yes, to answer your question. The creme brulee was fabulous.

Celebrating Singleness: January : 1

What a gift it is 
to see 
the depth
we posses:

to long; to be filled
to desire; to be had

What a gift it is 
to see
the extent 
of our acceptance

in Him.

Through Eyes of Joy

My dear friend Kenzi and I are committing this year to seeing through eyes of Joy.

Each month, we will be taking time to honor something we have deemed worthy of celebration.

The rule is: it doesn't matter if life is especially difficult or easy. What matters is choosing to partake in the delight of whatever thing is in front of us. 

Contributions are welcome. Please enjoy!

cel·e·brate

  [sel-uh-breyt]  Show IPA verb, cel·e·brat·ed,cel·e·brat·ing.

verb (used with object)

1.

to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) withceremonies or festivities: to celebrate Christmas; to celebrate thesuccess of a new play.

2.

to make known publicly; proclaim: The newspaper celebrated theend of the war in red headlines.

3.

to praise widely or to present to widespread and favorablepublic notice, as through newspapers or novels: a novelcelebrating the joys of marriage; the countryside celebrated in the novelsof Hardy.

4.

to perform with appropriate rites and ceremonies; solemnize:to celebrate a marriage.

verb (used without object)

5.

to observe a day or commemorate an event with ceremonies orfestivities.

6.

to perform a religious ceremony, especially Mass or the Lord'sSupper.

7.

to have or participate in a party, drinking spree, or uninhibitedgood time: You look like you were up celebrating all night.