Good Point
I've been listening to The Bible from 30,000 Feet for weeks now. I've mentioned a few other things that were really pointed at specific times in the past. Today's was Titus and Philemon.
I don't actually remember specifically which book was being discussed when Pastor Skip got to this point, but this was my takeaway today.
Married people and single people need to hang out together more. The single people always end up thinking that things will be really good when they get with that really special significant other. That if you could just have that other person that you could get through everything. I know that I fall into that category emotionally even when my head tells me I'm wrong.
Married people often lament their lack of freedom and their constant compromising after they get married. They forget what it was to be lonely.
Pastor Skip's point was that you really need to be around the other group enough to know what you're trading when you are making the trade in status, and remember why you did it. Because it's true that when I want to buy something, do something, or act on something, the only person that is really affected is me. That's got pluses and minuses. I think I'd be happy to trade in those pluses now. I really think I understand as well as I can what I'm giving up and what I'd be getting. But I also hope that I don't ever forget what the loneliness feels like so that I'm ever ungrateful if I ever get to quit being single and have to have Italian food for dinner 3 times in the same week or something dumb like that.
Brain break done... time to work some more...
I don't actually remember specifically which book was being discussed when Pastor Skip got to this point, but this was my takeaway today.
Married people and single people need to hang out together more. The single people always end up thinking that things will be really good when they get with that really special significant other. That if you could just have that other person that you could get through everything. I know that I fall into that category emotionally even when my head tells me I'm wrong.
Married people often lament their lack of freedom and their constant compromising after they get married. They forget what it was to be lonely.
Pastor Skip's point was that you really need to be around the other group enough to know what you're trading when you are making the trade in status, and remember why you did it. Because it's true that when I want to buy something, do something, or act on something, the only person that is really affected is me. That's got pluses and minuses. I think I'd be happy to trade in those pluses now. I really think I understand as well as I can what I'm giving up and what I'd be getting. But I also hope that I don't ever forget what the loneliness feels like so that I'm ever ungrateful if I ever get to quit being single and have to have Italian food for dinner 3 times in the same week or something dumb like that.
Brain break done... time to work some more...