Audra Jennings

It doesn't take much to realize my sometimes angst about singles and church... especially when I'm expected at singles' events. Our preacher participates in an annual lectureship and received his topics this week. He asked Rachel about his topic, then she pointed him my way because she new I had an opinion. Sam sent me the message below, and I wanted to share some thoughts because maybe it will help plant seeds of ideas for others. Got my assignments for Polishing the Pulpit in August. One of my lessons is called Seven Minutes of Wisdom (because that's about all I got). The audience is college age and singles in the church. The lesson is about dealing with friends who are married with children and all the talk about is their kids or their marriage. Thus making for boring, unnecessary conversation with single friends. The lesson is about how singles should deal with this situation. I know you have faced this some, so I thought I'd get some ideas from you to beg...

In Catch a Falling Star, Beth K. Vogt shares that God’s best is often behind the door marked “Never” Is there ever a point when you should let go of a dream? Shouldn’t you be content with what God has already given you, even if your life isn’t what society considers the norm? In Catch a Falling Star (Howard Books/May 7, 2013/ISBN 9781451660272/$14.99) , Beth K. Vogt tells the story of Dr. Kendall Haynes, a successful family physician with a thriving practice, helping others just as she always planned. However, at age 36, her dream of a husband and family has not come true — at least not yet. “Everyone experiences life not going according to their plans — the outcomes range from humorous to tragic,” says Vogt. “What I’ve learned — what I hope readers discover as they turn the pages of Catch a Falling Star — is God is in the plans , the dreams that come true, and he’s also in the plans that elude us.” Sure, growing her medical practice takes up a lot of her time and...

I'm not going to start a series of posts on the number of reasons why I am, and barring a miracle, will always be single. There's no point in discussing why I am like citronella to mosquitoes when it comes to guys. I know this. I accept this.  Still, I do have a profile on two singles sites. I've always been at the free level on one of them, and on the other, I've had a paid membership a few times. What this currently means is that I cannot communicate back with anyone who emails me (or read the emails for that matter). However, I can view the people that look at my profile.  Previously, the only guys who emailed me were either mentally not all there, mentally not all there with a booger hanging out of their nose when they took their own picture because I told them I wasn't talking to them until they at least put some info and pic up on their profile (fair is fair), or a foreign national living in another country (think along the lines of my sick aunt Tulu needs...

Tonight is a softball night, and I'd probably forget to blog when I got home if I don't make a quick post now. The teaser to tomorrow's blog is "The kind of guy that I attract." I have you hooked, don't I? This weekend, I will also be blogging about the number of things wrong with the Grey's Anatomy season finale. So,   if you have any comments about bad matches (fix-ups, online profile matches or blind dates), post them here because I want to hear them. Also, post your gripes about season finales that just made you made when they ended. I'm open to talk about more than just Grey's Anatomy . Or what show isn't coming back that you are going to miss? I promise to talk about it all this weekend!

A Facebook friend of mine shared this today, and I shared it on Facebook, and now I'm directing everyone here to it. This says everything I've thought re: singles and church. I've not had time to read through all the hundreds of comments, but the ones I've read thus far are great. Link here to the post Surviving Church as a Single and is written by Jon Acuff. More so than my single friends, I recommend my married readers take a look. You may or may not remember the days of this yourself, but it's a nice reminder. It might keep you from saying something you really shouldn't. I feel like such a leper sometimes.