Elaina M. Avalos
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13 years ago @ inprogress - rest well... · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ A Marked Change - Christian and single · 0 replies · +1 points
I think one of my biggest frustrations is that many churches have kind of left singles high and dry. There's the youth groups. And children's ministry. There's groups for moms. And support groups, etc., etc. But many of the churches I've checked out and the one I became a member of (before moving back home to Cali that is) had nothing for singles. Not even semi-regular get togethers.
My thing is...if a church doesn't have the ability to set something like that up, I wish that more married folks would include singles in their lives. Annie Downs wrote a blog post about that awhile back (about being taken on a "date" with married friends). At my age, I am (no joke) the ONLY single person without kids in my wide group of friends. At one point, professionally I could say that I knew two single people but they had children so they fit in well with my married colleagues.
I personally feel like some of that loneliness of being single and hitting my mid-thirties (I don't believe I'm alone on this) would be lessened if people felt like "God places the lonely in families Ps 68:6," was something that they could apply in their own lives by making a single person a part of their family (so to speak).
I don't think I have questions about dating or relationships right now. Mostly because I've just come out of a very long period of dating people I shouldn't. So I know what my problem was...lol...I was dating unbelievers or guys whose relationship was the Lord wasn't so hot. And, I've heard (ad nauseum) of all the ways to meet people. What I would rather hear about is the practical day to living of submitting, trusting, etc.
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13 years ago @ Lindsey Nobles - Even When I Deserve St... · 1 reply · +1 points
13 years ago @ http://www.elainaavalo... - Testing · 0 replies · +1 points