In the meantime

I've been thinking about God's plan and how for each of us He has a different one and how it relates to relationships. Some may find that "special person" right after highschool. Some wait awhile and then find that person.

It's funny how if you are one that has not found that "special person" there is a sort of stigma given...or felt within yourself. (I know this because I've been there and I know I'm not alone in that (was that a pun? well it wasn't intended if it was:o) But as I was thinking about this, it came to me that why is it that we/I can accept the fact that God has a plan for us, but when I/we look at the fact that we haven't yet found that special someone then it's a bad thing??

Wouldn't I be right in thinking that if I/we haven't found that person, then that it is because that is God's plan??? I have always been ok with the fact that out of most of my friends growing up & even now, that I haven't yet met that person. But sometimes when I'm around those friends I have find myself thinking "Is something wrong with me?" Forgetting altogether that there is A PLAN.

I found this article, "In the Meantime: What to Do While Waitng on God",by Carolyn MacInnes that is pretty interesting, it makes a lot of since. Here is a little bit section from it:

Aunt Pauline pats your leg. “All we’re saying,” she whispers, “is, get yourself someone before you’re old and it’s too late.”

Of course, if not for the gaping wound it’s left, the conversation would be positively laughable. “Get” yourself someone? As in, “Get some milk while you’re out” or “Hey, would you get me the TV remote?” Do they really think it’s so easy? Do they think you planned it this way? Many of us grew up assuming we’d meet our spouse in school. Thus, we weren’t mentally prepared for living in The Meantime (my definition: that period after classmates but before the soul mate).

This article is great! It's as if there is an unspoken rule that you can't move on with your life/purpose until you have found your speical person (even if it's not the person God has planned for you). That's not how it is at all. God odviously hasn't given you that person yet, and if you are sitting around waiting for it to happen & focusing on it as if you can't move on until you meet them, than you aren't fulfilling God's Purpose for your life. There are so many things that you/I could do. By feeling like you can't move on, it is just hindering your purpose. God has so many different plans for your/my life and being stuck & focusing on one thing could/is be blocking you from doing what you are really suppost to be doing at this time.

I think that I'm going to start focusing on God's purposes for me & not get offended or embarrased when it is known that I am not "with" anyone. There shouldn't be any shame in being single. After all we are here to serve the Lord & if at this time there isn't someone for me then fine...I'll live for his purpose until it is in His timing to give me that person.

Live in the "meantime"!!

----Well, that's it for now, I have been thinking about that lately & I had to write about it. It's as if after writing all my thoughts that it is actually cemented & now it is not only thoughts but can be actions!----