2011: The year of Weddings???

No, seriously, it has to be!  I currently feel like Katherine Heigl in 27 Dresses.. As of now I have a wedding in February, March, 2 in April, one in May, and 2 more in June.  Are you kidding me???  At least I am not my friend Beth; she has wedding EVERY weekend in June. 

Despite how crazy my life is about to get; I can't wait.  I mean your wedding day is one of THE most important days of your life!  And being able to witness my friends make a vow before God to live the rest of his or her life married to their spouse?  I can't wait!

Now it's funny because one of my best friend's JUST got engaged too, and she brought up how funny it was that I was going to be the last one in our group to get married.  In college I had 3 close girlfriends and I was the only one with a serious boyfriend.  We dated for a couple of years and every one thought we were going to get married.  Obviously, we did not.  No hard feelings, great guy, just not what God had planned.  But now all three of those girls have been engaged, my best friend being the last of the three (and one of the June weddings is one of those girls and I am in her wedding). 

Talking to her was kind of a reality check.  NOT because I am rushing to get married, but because I felt I needed to re-evaluate where my life was going, the type of guys I've been dating and the qualities I am looking for in a Christian man.

"The cumulative effect of days upon years that we do not really understand is a subtle erosion. We come to doubt our place, we come to question God's intentions toward us, and we lose track of the most important things in life.  We're not fully convinced that God's offer to us is life. We have forgotten that the heart is central. And we had no idea that we were born into a world at war."  Waking the Dead

Just a little reminder if you are entering wedding season like me, to evaluate the relationships you've had.  Why haven't they worked out?  What were you originally attracted to that person for?  A good friend of mine said something to me along the lines of God punishing her because she was 27 and single and a lot of her friends were getting married, a lot of those, whos relationship was not grounded in the church.

If you are male, female, whatever.. and if you are lonely because you are single and you have tons of friends in relationships, engaged, or married; God is not punishing you.  Let me say that again:
God
is
NOT
Punishing
you.

God Loves you and wants you to have joy in your life.  But your joy must come from him.  You are single for a season; or single for a reason.  Seek God to determine why. "The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners." Isaiah 61:1

The meaning of this quotation has something to do with good news, with healing hearts, with setting someone free.

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