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Monday, August 12, 2013

Love it and leave it

I've talked a lot about releasing over this last year.

I've been broken from things that I used to hold dear to me.

My heart looks completely different than when I first arrived in Vietnam. My mind doesn't quite process things the way it used to. And I'm so thankful for that.

All these things had become so jumbled from years of "sweeping things under the rug" if you will.

I titled this blog "Love it and leave it" because being a confident and single young woman in ministry can be difficult when we are surrounded by strong men in the church and growing young marriages and families.

There are all these unspoken expectations and questions that people ask about your life.

The truth is that I think that marriage is a beautiful thing. There are fewer things more precious and remarkable than a healthy, thriving, passionate marriage.
I also know that they are fewer things that I find more heart breaking than divorce.

Marriage is a gift to us and when people choose to walk away from that, it should grieve us.

I also know that there are season in life and that we change a little in each of them. B