ALL MY SINGLE PEOPLE SCREAM!

Who doesn't love T.V.? Don't lie to me. You love it. We all spend our afternoons, late-nights, maybe even some mornings watching T.V.. Point is T.V. takes up a lot of our time. My favorite thing to occupy the talk box with are trashy reality t.v. shows (like do people act like that in REAL life), like you can ask my friends on my campus when my show is on I'm OUT! I would run to my room or the nearest T.V. and just do me.  My newest guilty pleasure is Single Ladies. I was initially interested in the show due to the title obviously. Single Ladies. My life. Or so I thought.   I thought Single Ladies was created to make single women feel free and confident in themselves and lifestyles. But as I continued watching the show, like the faithful T.V. viewer that I am, I saw otherwise.

I thought that Single Ladies would be about loving the single lifestyle featuring successful, beautiful, and great women. I was right...kinda. The show does feature successful business women which is important in this day and age. It sends out the message for young ladies and women to strive for more ambitious careers as well as the education to go along which I am a strong advocate of. Also on the show is good character exemplifying the power of friendship and loyalty which is very important to a young lady. If not for friends and loyalty I don't know where I'd be and the women on the show do a great job of highlighting how important those qualities are.

PLUS THE CLOTHES ON THAT SHOW ARE FIRE.

However what are all of those qualities if you are not happy with your lifestyle? Single Ladies markets to single women and women in general using the fact that these characters are successful, beautiful, and great SINGLE LADIES. But, on the show instead of enjoying or being content with their single life they spend the majority of the episodes seeking out men to date, dating men, and sleeping with men; seldom are these women in a long term relationship. What does that ultimately communicate to the unsuspecting watcher (yeah right)? That these women are not okay with being single. And that's okay...because a lot of time people who are single don't start out being happy that they are.

Being single is a blessing from God, not something you should run away from.

Wow. That sentence has brought up all the times I myself have doubted my blessing. I spent a lot of time pining away after no one and anyone. I felt like my heart had all this love in it and I was so ready to love someone that I was just so frustrated that I was single. I would talk to my friends (who weren't single of course) and they would be like, "Sarah blah blah blah blah." I really can't tell you what they said except it was some variation of  *cue Disney music* "someday your prince will come," it's really hard to hear that over and over again. I know. I keep hearing it and it doesn't get easier unless you use that love you have and really sit down and have a relationship with God.

Blah blah blah blah. I've heard this before. No seriously. (hahaha Seriously Sarah is serious) But forreal. use that time you often you thinking or daydreaming about the man of your dreams or that boy you wish would talk to you and try to focus all of that TIME and energy on God. The time has to be there. God will be your focus and guide you. That's how I started this blog. For now that is my assignment that I will do with a gracious heart.

In the bible there are REAL single ladies that gave glory to God while living in their singleness. The most popular single lady in the old testament... Ruth (story can be found in the book of Ruth). When discussing Ruth I would like to emphasis the LADY. Ruth was kindhearted, loyal, gentle, and obedient to both Naomi (her mother-in-law) and God. Ruth was supposed to take care of Naomi and that was what she was doing, with a PLEASANT spirit. Ruth even followed Naomi to where her family was, leaving behind her own she was literally chasing after God and her assignment. Then after which Ruth listen to Naomi and was blessed with Boaz (aka BOOaz). Meaning while we’re waiting on God we are to do his work with a pleasant spirit.

Another brief example of a single lady in the bible is Lydia ( Acts 16 ). Paul had a vision of a man letting his into his house, the man in Paul’s vision turns out to actually be Lydia who owned her own house and let them stay with her. She was doing God’s work AND running things! How bout that for a successful single lady! Read about her. Look up to her she had to love her life and God for her to be used in such a way by the Lord.

THERE ARE SINGLE CONTENT MEN TOO! JEREMIAH. Check him out in the book of Jeremiah. He’s awesome. But yeahh…

There are single ladies happy with their lives out there. They’re just a little harder to find. Plus everyone is human and craves attention but so many times do we forget that the attention we want and need is ready for us to take it. God is always WAITING. He waits for us to spend time with him so he can give us that attention we want so bad. I know I want it. So chase after Him and be open with God, try and make a list of things that make you happy, spend time with positive people, and smile more let’s see how happy and content we can all be because believe me that’s what I’m trying to do.

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