A Message For Singles

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Lauren F. Winner is the highly acclaimed author of the memoir Girl meets God. She is currently completing a Ph.D. in American religious history at Columbia and has written for the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Christianity Today, and Christian Century.

I really like the following words from her book, Real Sex-the truth about chastity:

Perhaps we ought not fixate on the call to lifelong
singleness. Some people, of course, are called to
to singleness for a spell, if even a very long spell.
Often, our task is to discern a call to singleness for
right now, and that's not difficult. If you are single
right now, you are called, right now, to be single--called
to live single life as robustly, and gospel-conformingly,
as you possibly can. (Emphasis mine)