The Value of One

Once upon a time, there was a sixteen-year-old girl who had everything all figured out. Life was a very simple puzzle, one of those 25 piece ones where you can clearly see which pieces goes where. Things would happen in a very pat order. Graduate from high school. Six months later, boom. A young man [...]

Today marks a year since my first two posts (here’s the other one). Wow, so much has gone on in a year!!! I am so grateful for this blog that the Lord has given me, and the opportunities He has given me through this. I have gotten to know so many lovely Christian young ladies, and [...]

I’ve been waiting until they officially announced it to get this post up…but I want to congratulate my dear, dear, dear friend Katie Boyd on the beginning of her courtship to Ben Robertson! As you know if you regularly read this blog, Kate and I began emailing two years ago but never actually got to [...]

…there’s a Superman. During the last few days, I’ve been thinking more about exactly what one “notices” in a person. Like when a girl would notice (or be attracted to) a young man, not because of his character, but because of the way he looks. When girls are younger, they get this romantic ideal in [...]

“Women are like apples on trees, the best ones are on the top of the tree. The men don’t want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and don’t want to get hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren’t so good but easy. So, [...]

Recently an article by Michael Pearl of No Greater Joy Ministries came to my attention. Now, before I begin let me say that we have found some good things from them. Their child training books, for example. But in most issues it seems that the Pearls have some bizarre notions. I was very bothered by [...]

Waaaay back when I wrote the courtship series, I was going to have a Part 3…what I wanted in a husband. The “part” got delayed, and during that time the Lord really began to reveal things to me about my expectations…so I suppose it was a good thing that I didn’t write that post way [...]

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.–Song of Solomon 8:7 Gotta love that verse. It sounds like Shakespeare. Hey, I’m a hopeless romantic. I love today…the day to revel in the mushies. Happy [...]

  For the past few weeks I have been reading the book Get Married by Candice Watters. Wow. What a book! (To see and read more about the book, go here.)   In a day of delayed marriages in the secular world and over-spiritualized singleness in the Christian world, Get Married is a breath of [...]

I found these on the IDD Blog and they were too hilarious to pass up! Don’t Rest You Merry Gentlemen (to the tune of God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen) Don’t rest, you merry gentlemen, for we are in dismay, Remember girls are waiting, been waiting everyday. Oh save us from the Old-Maid’s tower, we beg [...]