Somehow we get this idea that the only people meant to be single are the ones who have a special spiritual "talent" to not desire...

Marriage always gets the attention as the state in which people should be an example of the gospel. It's supposed to be a picture of...

When my husband started pursuing me, he was fresh off the mission field. He had hardly any money and no car. Some might have though me...

If by calling yourself single you mean that you are lacking, without, missing something, less than, unable to be fully happy, incomplete,...

Six years ago I dated and got engaged to someone that I didn't end up marrying. At first during the fun of dating, engagement, wedding...

Please enjoy this sermon I wrote to myself a couple years ago. :) I am not at the mercy of my hormones and drives. My stormiest emotions...

Whenever my greatest fears intrude upon my mind, I try to immediately think of the martyrs. I recall to memory the stories of these...

Getting to know a guy you're interested in is like walking a tight rope. On the one hand, you don't want to get ahead of yourself, give...

It can be so hard to watch someone else receive the thing that you are so desperately desiring. Especially when we see the girl whose...

I'm afraid we greatly underestimate God's ability to satisfy us. We cheat ourselves out of being filled with that warm, bubbling...

You've heard it before a million times: "Surrender your desires to God!" But how do you know if you've actually surrendered? Deeper than...

Growing up, I had one dream: to find a godly man, fall desperately in love with him, have a fairy tale wedding, and spend the rest of my...

I once read this verse in a way I never had before: "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints." Psalm 116:15 Usually,...

Many a single woman has thought to herself, "Lord, if I can't have marriage, can you please just remove the desire for it??" And while...

Bitterness towards God begins to fester when we look at Him as the enemy instead of the Answer, when we blame Him for our suffering...

Sister, stop calling singleness your "waiting season." It's not a season of waiting. It's a state in which there is much work to be done!...

Surrendering your desire for marriage doesn't mean squelching your desire for it, as if you were taking a fire hose to a flame. God...

At what point does our desire for a good thing (like marriage or children) become an idol? Idolatry is sneaky. We know in our heads that...

It is so easy to focus on the things of earth rather than the things of eternity. Sisters, let me point our vision upward today with...

There are days when I wish I wasn't planted in the garden of singleness. There are days when being planted here feels like a torturous...