The Single Life: Valentine's Day 2019

Well, it’s Valentines Day. To be perfectly honest with you, leading up to today I wanted to write off today as just another Thursday.

But, I’ve been thinking, and I’ve talked to a couple of friends this morning who reminded me of some things.

First: the cliché “You never know what’s around the corner.” As much as I roll my eyes at that, it’s true. I have many friends who didn’t even really know their “significant other” 3 years ago, and they are about to celebrate their first wedding anniversary! Life likes to surprise you.

Second: God hasn’t forgotten you! He knows the deepest desires of our hearts. Even the things that we aren’t aware that we want yet. HE KNOWS! God knows how much I want to be married. He knows how much I want to raise a family. And He knows how much I’m struggling right now.

Valentine’s Day is about love, right? Why is it so easy for us to forget about the greatest love we could ever receive? He laid down His life for us, so you could have the chance to be with Him forever! He DELIGHTS in us!

It’s so easy to feel like you’re forgotten, left behind, invisible and un-lovable when it seems like everyone around you has someone, and you don’t. Just as an example, I work at a daycare and all of the employees are women. Aside from the one girl who is in highschool, I am the only single one there, and there is only one who is not married. And that's a hard reality to come to grips with.

It's hard to find the joy in the waiting. I need to learn how to embrace the season of singleness. There are so many things I could pursue. So many adventures I could go on.

I need to get to a place of not just understanding, but truly knowing God's love for me. I need to come into a place of full surrender, trust that His plan and His timing truly perfect.

There are also things I could be doing to "better" myself. Take better care of myself physically, mentally, and emotionally. Practice some more self love. There are things I can do to better prepare myself to be a wife (like time and money managing).

This post ended up being much different than what I had originally started writing a week ago. That one was starting to sound like a "feel sorry for me" rant.

I need to start taking life by the horns and start going somewhere!

Hopefully this post made sence. I feel like it's a bit scatter brain, but these are my brain bump thoughts right now.

Hope you all have/had a great Valentines Day!

Until Next Time,
Tierra Rose