"You are my strength, strength like no other. Reaches to me"

"A woman is not born a woman. Nor does she become one when she marries a man, bears a child and does their dirty linen, not even when she joins a women's liberation movement. A woman becomes a woman when she becomes what God wants her to be" - Quoted from the book "Learning to be a Woman"

"This priceless truth can help keep your perspective clear in relation to true fulfillment in life. Too many Christian women think that the inner longings of their heart relate only to love, marriage, and motherhood. Look a little closer and see if that longing isn't untimately for Jesus."

"Gary Chapman once remarked , "I feel very strongly that marriage is not a higher calling than the single state. Happy indeed are those people, married or single, who have discovered that happiness is not found in marriage but in a right relationship with God." Fulfillment for a Christian woman begins with the Lordship of Christ in every area of her life."

"A college professor (wife, mother of seven children, singer, and author) told a group of young women that when she was eight years old, her mother told her a secret that has guided her perspective on life. The most important thing her mother would ever tell her was, ' No one, not even the man you will marry one day, can make you happy - only Jesus can. ' What a profound statement for such a little girl. This secret allowed her to grow up following Jesus with reckless abandonment"

"When a single woman enters a career or even marriage without understanding that she is complete in Christ, she will be disillusioned and dissatisfied. Incompleteness is not the result of being single, but of not being full of Jesus. Only the process of reckless abandonment to Jesus does any woman ever finally understands that, in Him, she is complete."

"When two "incomplete" singles get married, their union will not make them complete. Their marriage will be simply two "incomplete" people trying to find completeness in one another. Only when they understand that their fullness is found in a relationship with Jesus will they ever begin to complement one another.They can never complete one another. You were not created to complete another but to complement. Completion is Jesus' responsibility and complementing is a woman's (hee, and for the guys: or a man's) priveledge." wow. i've never seen in this way. i thought i was made to complete someone, but then this truth seems to jump out at me. Everytime i read this line again, my heart seems to skip a beat. We can never be able to complete someone. because only Jesus can. Only He can fill that hole in the hearts of people, men and women alike. And even if we try hard enough to "complete" someone, maybe a friend, we will never be able to satisfy, the way Jesus does.

"A woman not complete in Jesus will be a drain on her husband. Such a woman will expect her husband to fill the gap that only Jesus can fill. Only the single woman who understands this means of being complete in Jesus is mature enough to be a helpmeet (complement)"


The above excerpts taken, here and there, from the current book i'm reading, "Lady in Waiting" by Jackie Kendall & Debby Jones


I want to fall madly and deeply in love with Jesus, before i do a man.

I want to use my single days completely sold out to Him, because a single man/woman has got something valuable, that married men and women may not be able to spare, and it's time.

Jesus, it's Your presence that I long for, Your face that I seek and Your Name that I love