Category Archives: Devotional

The Distinction between IN and FOR (Part 2)

The Christian cannot live without hope any more than the Christian can live without faith or without love. This does not apply just to a single person looking for a relationship alone. The Christian life bleeds hope. Every facet of the Christian life involves a hope for what is not yet, for what should or […]

More than These

I want to know. I have always wanted to know. Everything!!! But in my singleness I wanted most of all to know why love tarried. I was under the impression that, given enough information, given the right answers, I would be able to cope with my loneliness and rest peacefully in God’s arms. The truth […]

A Loss That Is Not a Loss Part 3

“They sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.” Job 2:13 The trouble for the beleaguered single is that their specter is ephemeral—it lacks substance, lacks shape, and lacks form. It is a shadow, a longing […]