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So I've been feeling pretty low the past few days. I feel like every important aspect of my life is out of my control right now. I'm in a state of limbo and there's nothing I can do at this point but wait and pray. My dating life has been depressing as well since most men I come across want a fashion plate who has never been married and doesn't have kids. It's as if I'm a misfit and the man who understands me and wants me doesn't exist.
So I started thinking about the positives in my life, and what I AM.
I am:
usually an optimist, a good person, a good mother, caring, compassionate, easy going, an artist, a runner, hard working, silly, neurotic, thoughtful, goal oriented, emotional, Christian, friend, sister, daughter, granddaughter.
So I've been feeling pretty low the past few days. I feel like every important aspect of my life is out of my control right now. I'm in a state of limbo and there's nothing I can do at this point but wait and pray. My dating life has been depressing as well since most men I come across want a fashion plate who has never been married and doesn't have kids. It's as if I'm a misfit and the man who understands me and wants me doesn't exist.
So I started thinking about the positives in my life, and what I AM.
I am:
usually an optimist, a good person, a good mother, caring, compassionate, easy going, an artist, a runner, hard working, silly, neurotic, thoughtful, goal oriented, emotional, Christian, friend, sister, daughter, granddaughter.
*tackle hugs* x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 x Ice Cream x 0 cals x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tackle hugs x a trip to the ER x 1,000,000,000 softer hugs
Emotional, driven, determined, strong headed, compassionate, passionate, loved, loving, hard worker, neurotic, funny, musician, dorky, crazy, worrier, good person, Christian, student, daughter, grand-daughter, sister, aunt, niece, cousin and friend.
__________________ They say you are what you eat. That's funny, I don't remember eating legend lately.
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"When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will." - Abraham Lincoln
My dating life has been depressing as well since most men I come across want a fashion plate who has never been married and doesn't have kids. It's as if I'm a misfit and the man who understands me and wants me doesn't exist.
This is because "most men" wouldn't be worthy of you. It's not that you're a misfit at all, but rather you and the kids are so precious that it won't be a common man, or a common relationship.
Been where you are, and believe me, I hate NOT knowing the plan, but just remember Jeremiah 29:11.
__________________ "For as the human body apart from the spirit is lifeless, so faith apart from its works of obedience is also dead." James 2:26 (AMP)
"The church must not simply bandage the victims under the wheel, but jam the spoke in the wheel itself." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Yes, I will." - Celtic Heart
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This is because "most men" wouldn't be worthy of you. It's not that you're a misfit at all, but rather you and the kids are so precious that it won't be a common man, or a common relationship.
Been where you are, and believe me, I hate NOT knowing the plan, but just remember Jeremiah 29:11.
__________________ They say you are what you eat. That's funny, I don't remember eating legend lately.
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"When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will." - Abraham Lincoln
This is because "most men" wouldn't be worthy of you. It's not that you're a misfit at all, but rather you and the kids are so precious that it won't be a common man, or a common relationship.
Been where you are, and believe me, I hate NOT knowing the plan, but just remember Jeremiah 29:11.
Marvellous thread idea, bravo to those who have actively contributed so far :] It's quite interesting to see how people define themselves.
<< because that's the default when you want to say something but can't actually word it in a pleasing manner.
I basically pulled this from my therapy notes.
Spoiler for who I am:
I am not my hobbies, nor am I my belief.
I'm changeable, hypocritical, a human being.
Piffle, balderdash, a complete aeolist.
Who I am right now has been created through who I have been, who I will be in the future is shaped through my present actions.
Descriptively i'm a collection of -tives, but I am not them, they are not me.
I am not a list of buzzwords.
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I think this is a great thread too. We don't talk about the positive things we have and do. I guess its always easier to say the negative rather then the positive things we have, but need to encourage each other to show and express the positive more. Also Hazel I hope that you feel better soon. I can understand how life can be at times but with the way you described yourself I know you will get through it with grace!
Speaking of which I did not answer this question someone asked me (you know who you are) so here it is now.
I am:
Extremely hardworking, too positive at times, hopeful, helpful, patient (more so with children), artistic, good listener, goofy, funny, dreamer, forgiving, teacher, student, daughter, sister, friend, passionate, jumbled with emotions and most of the time I can control them and others I can't (eek), respectful, perfectionist, observer of many things, generous, sensitive, trustworthy, stubborn to the bone eek (x2), love God, and mostly I am for some reason given the gift of being around children...many, many, many children. Those kids drive me crazy and make me want to be better at the same time.
p.s dancer (ish---not really).
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I am: a little dazed and confused, not afraid, not my own, free falling, a bit of a scoundrel (but mostly for laughs), a bit of a hustler (give me a chance and I will clean the table), and a giver.
This thread reminds me of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's line in his poem "who am I"
"Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, Thou knowest, 0 God, I am Thine!"
__________________ "The only true bond of Church unity is Christ the Lord, who has reconciled us to God the Father, and will gather us out of our present dispersion into the fellowship of His body, that so, through His one Word and Spirit, we may grow together into one heart and one soul" (John Calvin)
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