singleness

my brother was teaching me to be a "girl" hehe
quite funny actually!! very nice company when one is doing the dishes =)

yay no more 5hr labs for the rest of this semester! not that they were bad or anything though, i actually enjoyed them, despite having to do those assignments. labs have been a good way to get to know some ppl in my course. we have a lab partner who we work with for the whole semester, so u get to know them quite a bit. had a great lab partner this semester...many thanks, as well as apologies for those days when i was falling asleep!

we got talking last thurs about our younger brothers actually. i was really surprised at how protective i am of my brother regarding some things. i remember how once we talked about dating relationships, and the idea of my brother going out with someone at the moment scares me, like all the temptation etc. and not just temptation within such a relationship either, but all that exists in the world, even at school etc. don't want him to step away from the right path and all. and like what are his friends really like? how will they influence him? how have they affected him? whereas personally, i trust my friends, and i trust my friendships, and most of all i trust God with them and about them.

those thoughts led me to thinking from my parents' point of view. in the past, ive often resented how protective my parents have been of me, especially about dating relationships, thinking that i can take care of myself perfectly fine and all. but stepping into their shoes, i can see why they're protective. if i feel protective about my brother, how much more would they feel, because im their daughter, someone who has come from them. how much would u want to protect your child from the evils of this world? a lot
and im grateful for their protection, im grateful that they've cared so much. im glad that ive never been in one of those dating relationships as such, unless you count that 3-week 'relationship' that resulted from complete foolishness (was such an idiot) and nothing else. im glad that my future husband (if God so wills) won't be having "leftovers" of me and i pray that God will safeguard that.
for those who havent read josh harris, he wrote about a girl who went out with heaps of guys before her husband, and in a 'vision' all her previous boyfriends stood in front of her, and she realised that to each of them she had given a special part of herself away. what was left was what now belonged to the guy she's marrying.

recently with some stuff happening, i feel that God's been telling me to be patient with Him, wait for His good and perfect plan to continue to unfold, to trust in Him completely. and im willing to.
it's easy to not want to be single in this day and age, but it is God who knows us completely and utterly, and who loves us enough to give us the very best, our wants as well as needs. encourage those who are single at the moment to look to Jesus, and to make the most of time (well applies to everyone hehe). singleness is a gift though sometimes it may seem otherwise.