Living single

I’m going to a Living Single course at my church tonight. The church runs “life stage” courses, and includes one for single people, which is great. I do keep rather hoping I could move out of this particular life stage, but it seems God has well and truly hit the pause, if not the stop, button here for me.

(I confess that I did shed a few tears last week when I saw my younger sister selling baby things on facebook. I know my family has given up on me getting married and having children, and there were comments at Christmas about how my youngest niece would be the last grandchild, because they know I don’t get asked out, and I have all but given up myself, but still, it makes me sad at times.)

Anyway, tonight the course is on Loneliness and Companionship, which is the hard thing, so it should be good. These days I think someone is a good friend if I see them about once a month (and if I don't get something close to one-on-one with people, no amount of group "social" activity really works for me), so you need to work out how to live.