Strange Monday
Monday was a strange day. In the morning, sewing and listening to music with my dad (the latter with my dad, not the former). One of the songs was from a musical, and sung by a Suffragette. This historical group holds a spot near and dear to my heart, because I wrote a term paper about their founder, Emmeline Pankhurst, a few years ago. I was therefore greatly excited and went bounding into my Dad's room exclaiming. I think he wondered what was wrong with me. :)
I finally cut out my dress for Bertha's wedding — um, guess I'll be busy sewing this weekend.
I drove down to J&J Farming to do some office work. I dropped off some stuff at the Halsey post office, then decided to drive back to Hubbard to sew. The Smuckers weren't expecting me that evening, anyway, and they were having a family get-together. Well, I reached Woodburn and recalled that AG had invited me to a Bible study for that evening. I had not planned to be in the Woodburn are and therefore had not agreed to go. But now that I was there I thought, hey, maybe I should go. I'm tellin' you, sometimes I'm not incredibly logical in my thought patterns -- but it seemed like a good thing to do. AG and family live in Portland, so I called her to get directions and then trekked on up.
An interesting group it was, some interesting discussion had -- and we got stuck on the subject of divorce and remarriage. Like we did the only other time I attended a Bible study at the G's. Apparently, that isn't necessarily a good sampling of their studies, according to IG.
Additionally, there was the subject of whether it is better for a Christian to remain single. The G's think so... and it does make sense in a way, and scripture supports it to some extent. However, it is a somewhat depressing thought. My current stand is that if it's God's will for one to be single, they'd better stay single; if it's His will for them to be married, they'd better be married. It would be wrong to stay single if God really wanted you married. There are certain ministries that likely work better with a couple than a single person.
The hard part, as with any decision, is discerning God's will...
I finally cut out my dress for Bertha's wedding — um, guess I'll be busy sewing this weekend.
I drove down to J&J Farming to do some office work. I dropped off some stuff at the Halsey post office, then decided to drive back to Hubbard to sew. The Smuckers weren't expecting me that evening, anyway, and they were having a family get-together. Well, I reached Woodburn and recalled that AG had invited me to a Bible study for that evening. I had not planned to be in the Woodburn are and therefore had not agreed to go. But now that I was there I thought, hey, maybe I should go. I'm tellin' you, sometimes I'm not incredibly logical in my thought patterns -- but it seemed like a good thing to do. AG and family live in Portland, so I called her to get directions and then trekked on up.
An interesting group it was, some interesting discussion had -- and we got stuck on the subject of divorce and remarriage. Like we did the only other time I attended a Bible study at the G's. Apparently, that isn't necessarily a good sampling of their studies, according to IG.
Additionally, there was the subject of whether it is better for a Christian to remain single. The G's think so... and it does make sense in a way, and scripture supports it to some extent. However, it is a somewhat depressing thought. My current stand is that if it's God's will for one to be single, they'd better stay single; if it's His will for them to be married, they'd better be married. It would be wrong to stay single if God really wanted you married. There are certain ministries that likely work better with a couple than a single person.
The hard part, as with any decision, is discerning God's will...
posted by Claire at 17:00
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