"The best thing a man can do for a woman is to love God more than her." Yesterday was Valentines Day. I suppose I should hit on that subject, right? I spent the day on a lovely date with God, doing the typical stuff I assume one does on a date. Went to a thrift store, ate tacos, drank a smoothie, and watched Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. 'Twas lovely. I noticed that quite a few people posted about it being Singles Awareness Day (which it isn't, by the way. It's the next day, on the 15th), or S.A.D. as some people call it. I never really got that... I've always, for the most part, enjoyed being single. Part of that is because my image of what a relationship looks like was tainted for most of my life, and it wasn't until last year that God gave me a healthy image as to what a godly relationship looks like. And I suppose another part of it is that for the past most of my life I've just been complacent. I really have no strong desire for a relationship. I'm really not a romantic person, and I like that I don't have to deal with any of that. I like that I don't have to deal with all of the complexities that come with relationships. I like that I don't have to worry about someone constantly getting in my space (I'm super anal about my space and alone time). This complacency is also something that God worked on in me last year. And while a relationship is still not something that I strongly desire, He's softened my heart to the possibility that some day it may be in His will for me to enter a relationship with someone. The poor sucker, haha. I feel like what God is doing now, with all of the fear conquering and growth, shaping & molding that He's doing, He's preparing me for such an adventure. And if not that kind of adventure, than something else. Over the past year or so, God has been showing me what I would want & need if I was ever to enter that adventure with someone. I found this out: it is going to have to be one freaking heck of a special dude to be my partner in crime - or in life. Both, really. He won't have to deal with the typical things that most females deal with, but he'll definitely have challenges to face. The two main ones being food/health stuff and spiritual warfare. The only way I could marry someone is if he went off of the same foods that I can't eat, particularly those that I'm intolerant to, those of which being gluten, casein, and soy. There can be no traces of those foods in his diet - at all. I'm not marrying someone so they can make me sick. As for spiritual warfare... it's becoming more clear that I don't think I would be able to spend the rest of my life with someone who doesn't understand or acknowledge the realities and terror of spiritual warfare. Someone who has been through similar experiences as me, and knows how to battle such things, and how to provide the much needed comfort during them. Yep. And while I feel rather ridiculous posting these, I do so not as something for people to look at and see if they qualify (I really can't imagine anyone doing that anyway), but as a gesture of openness & realness. These are what God put on my heart last year when He was softening it. Doesn't get much more open & real than this... =b "A woman's heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her."
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