'Singles Awareness Day' or 'Celebration of the gift of singleness'?

Tomorrow is Valentines Day or as many refer to it as 'Singles Awareness Day'
In 1 Timothy 4:12 it says, "Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example to the believers in life, love, speech, faith and purity.
So my question is why does my generation think that it is so wrong to be single. Why must they always have a boyfriend or girlfriend. I believe that their is one man for me...hes out there i have no doubt. Gods promised me that. But i've committed that during these years that i'm single...i'm going to live my fullest for Him. When we are single we dont have a family or responsibilties that we will one day have when God puts pairs us with that special woman or man. My husband and i won't be able to pick up and do missions when we have a family without considering what is best for our family. During our single years we should set that example that is stated in Timothy...Timothy was a young man but he was an example to so many. We should desire to set the example to others...why do we sit on Valentines Day and feel sorry for ourselves. God has given us the gift, Yes, singleness is a gift from God...but like every gift we have a choice....we can choose to sulk through every Valentines Day feeling sorry for ourselves or we can Celebrate the gift that God has given us in singleness to use these years reaching others for his kingdom. We are at a special time in our lives that we are only blessed with for a little while. How will you choose to spend your single years? so this Valentines Day will you sulk about being single or will you embrace the gift from your Heavenly Father....

Lord,
Thank you for these single years. I pray for my future husband may he embrace his single years as a gift from you and use them for your glory. May you continue to bless these single years for me so that i can love others...so that one day when you bring my husband to me their are no regrets that my single years were used for your glory.
Amen

ANY THOUGHTS?

How would your church be described?

exciting, welcoming, awesome, growing, amazing, accepting, fun way to teach God, loving (like if someones in a crisis we all ull together to help them), family, awesome, driven...driven to stretch the bounds of traditions in order to reach more lost, amazing, striving...we are striving to be the body of Christ, awesome, craziness, caotic, growing, mission-minded, family, awesome!, community, caring, busy, my everthing, rockin, drama, drama central these are some words that youth and adults alike used to describe First Baptist Church of Springfield. 1 Corinthians 6:19--tells us that each indivisual believer is the temple of God. We are the church. So the questions should really be are we exciting, welcoming, awesome, amazing, accepting, drivne, family, craziness, growing, busy, caring, mission-minded, drama, community. Are we the things that we describe the church. WE ARE THE CHURCH. Hebrews 10:24-25 says, "Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in hte habit of doing, but let us encourage one another" We are the body of Christ and should be striving to be what these people say the church is. When we walk the halls of our schools, work places, or even walmart people should be able to tell that we are different...can people tell we are growing in our realtionship, that we are caring, striving to make a difference, mission-minded, awesome, family, community? Can people tell these things. Someone asked me 'Stephanie so whats your word to describe our church? upon responding she said yea...but only some are. My challenge is that we ALL are!
Christ calls us to love others. How many of us have reached out to someone here at church whom we've never seen in church before? or told someone that it was good to see them? How many of us are so bold to proclaim the LOVE & HOPE of CHrist to our unsaved friends? I wonder if you ask your unsaved friends at school or work or even at walmart what would their answers be? would their answers be growing, awesome, welcoming, accepting, community, family, driven, striving, amazing, loving? or would their answers be unforgiving, condeming, hypocritical, 2-faced, judgmental, negative, or hurtful?
My prayer is that we realize whereever we may go whatever we may do that we will be the light of Christ...when people are asked about the church may they be able to say that we are what Christ is callingus to be...loving, accepting, forgiving, and actively sharing His Love & Hope with others around us.

We aren't perfect people but we do serve a Perfect God who wants to use us.

Breaking the Chains of today & releasing HOPE for tomorrow.

Second time in 2 weeks that i'm writing about what God is doing! So Wednesday night we had an open mic and music night. I have to be honest and say that i wanted the 'testimony' part to go a lot better but thats why i'm not in control & He is! He always knows what we need when we need it. So the 'testimony' part was finished and our bands got up to play for our closing & invitation part, we sang for like 30-40 minutes and before we knew it, it was 8:30 (church is supposed to let out at 8:00) God was moving in powerful ways. I'm so excited to be apart of a church where He is seen and recognized! It makes me excited to see people go to the alter with their friends, to see people join together not as the jocks or the band kids or whatever sterotype they make have been put under but to see them go to the alter and Brothers and Sisters in Christ, as ONE body of Christ. Unity. It was amazing to sit there (well stand there) and watch those 'stereotypes' be broken & friendships mended...that can only be a thing of God! Its an absotlutely amazing to see those chains being broken! I have gain so many more friends by breaking out for that sterotyping system and reaching out like Christ calls us to....I now have a LARGE variety of friends & each of them holds a different place in my heart. I have friends at the middle school (although i see these as my mentoring group), & i have friends at all areas of the high school & friends in college. God has blessed me tremendously by being able to befriend people around me. Its NOT easy but with his help & guidance i'm trying to be his hands and feet. Many times its challenging to get involved in other peoples lives like someone told me this past week...'Ministry is getting involved in the mess of people lives' but i just thank the Lord that we are able to share the HOPE with them. & i'm excited that i have a best friend, family & family in Christ who tries to do just that...share HOPE with people.