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Coming to Terms with Singleness

Singleness – Burden or Blessing?
Coming to Terms with Singleness

Singleness – Burden or Blessing?

Singleness – is it a burden or a blessing? Each of us who are single would likely give a different answer to that question depending on when we were asked. And both answers would be correct. Singleness, like marriage (and almost…

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Dealing with Well-Meaning People
Coming to Terms with Singleness

Dealing with Well-Meaning People

Just recently I received an email asking me to address a certain topic here on Purposeful Singleness. I’m happy to do that in today’s post. If you would like to see a topic addressed let me know either in the…

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Grieving What Never Was
Coming to Terms with Singleness

Grieving What Never Was

Scrolling through Facebook produces a mixed bag of content – the everyday reports from your family and friends, the funny stuff that’s shared and reshared, the stuff that’s supposed to be funny but isn’t, the occasional offensive post, and the…

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Coming to Terms with Singleness

Talk Down

By Ross Clark Preparing for singleness when you’d much rather be preparing for marriage When an airplane pilot is stricken and a passenger with little or no flying experience has to take the controls and be ‘talked down’ by those…

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Coming to Terms with Singleness

The “Lacks” in Our Lives

Yesterday I received a lovely birthday card from an “older” woman — someone I’ve come to love and respect. She wrote nice things about my “genuine caring and joy in helping others” being “shining reflections of the light deep inside…

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Coming to Terms with Singleness

It’s a Choice We Make: Coming to Terms with Singleness

By Fern Horst Whether never-married, widowed or divorced, long-term singleness often comes as a surprise. Because few people expect to remain single or become single, it may take some time before many singles realize that they need to come to…

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Coming to Terms with Singleness

Steps to Contentment

Allow thyself to complain of nothing, not even of the weather. Never picture thyself under any circumstances in which thou art not. Never compare thine own lot with that of another. Never allow thyself to dwell on the wish that…

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Coming to Terms with Singleness

Wanting it All

“You’re an auntie. You can’t do everything!” was my niece’s admonition to me when she was five, indicating I couldn’t be an auntie and a mommy, too. On the way to adulthood, we often lose sight of this five-year-old wisdom…

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  • Home
  • Topics
    • Coming to Terms with Singleness
    • Fulfillment and Purpose in Singleness
    • Holidays as a Single
    • Managing Life Alone
    • Recovering from Rejection
    • Relationship with Jesus
    • Scripture on Singleness
    • Sexuality as a Single
    • Singles in Community
  • Books for Singles
  • Bible Reading
  • Contact