As I was sitting beside
That begun the most meaningful talk I've had this week. You know you can spend hours with people and feel like you've completely wasted your time, or just spend 5 minutes and get a revelation and feel like you've already become a better person. The right people at the right time can be so powerful.
So I answered hesitantly, "I suppose that means that... You don't settle for less. The right one eventually comes along. And if you don't wait, that can't be True Love because then every person that comes along is your true love. What's your interpretation?"
She grinned in her very '
She was telling me while I was on the bus with her how going to bible school had changed her perspective on love. A girl without God can be ordinary. An ordinary girl who spends her whole life wishing upon the perfect guy with the right looks, personality and way of romance is nothing spectacular- almost every girl does or will do that.
But imagine instead, a girl who doesn't crave for that. She knows romance doesn't equate to fulfilment in life. She knows who she is in God and puts her security in His love and His vision for her. Her lifelong wish is doing something great that can change the world, and not just a marriage. This girl will stand out from the crowd because she doesn't place her trust in the elusive illusion of a perfect man. More importantly, this girl will stand out because she's secure.
Hey, we should be taught this from young. Instead, media instils in us what we think is 'right'- that every girl should get attached and then get married before she's old and left on the shelf- Hits the raw spot of every girl. We're so insecure; we want to find ourselves in a guy. Some of us would like to find our security as 'so-and-so's girlfriend'. Where does our identity go then? Why don't we get people teaching us that it's okay to be ourselves, and that it's okay to be alone (because alone doesn't mean lonely)? Why don't chick flicks tell the story of a girl who found fulfilment in security with herself and not how some cute guy miraculously solved all her problems- because that's never going to happen?
This is a world deprived of love. This is a generation of youths running around looking for love in any and every place they can find, regardless of whether it is real love or not, we just want to fill the emptiness inside. We look in all the wrong places yet wonder why we're so pathetic. It's so ironic, one man died on the cross 2000 years ago because he loved us, and yet today we go around begging for love from person to person.
True Love Waits. And if you can't go hungry for awhile and eat every piece of garbage that comes along, when the real delicacy arrives, you're likely to just pass it by.
True Love Waits. And if you can't be content in the love of a God who died for you, you won't be content in the love of a man who can fail you.
debbie at 11:24 AM