I've been reading
this blog for a while. I appreciate Lauren's thoughtful posts and her pretty pictures.
Her husband is also a writer.
When I taught communicable disease/ healthy relationships in group therapy, I would sometimes share his writings with my teen boys...sparked some good convos.
From a recent post entitled,
"Top 10 Saddest/Craziest/Understandable Things I’ve Seen Christians Believe About Relationships":
9. You’ll meet The One when you don’t want him anymore.
Thanks to this gem, 95% of single women at your church are silently
punishing themselves for not yet figuring out how to obliterate their
desire to get married or have a boyfriend. And simultaneously blaming
themselves for keeping a good man away (with their thoughts? their
energies? vibes? Karma? God’s punishment/reward system? I’ve never
understood the mechanics of this part.). Look, if you really want to be a mom
or wife one day, don’t kill off your natural healthy desires just
because you can’t fulfill it right now. You wouldn’t try to convince
yourself that hunger is a sin just because dinner isn’t served for
another hour and a half, would you? No. You recognize it as good and
healthy, and you wait patiently before the Lord. Or the cook.
- Lauren Nichole
