![]() ![]() If they have no garden to tend, why would they need a helper? If a man has no vision for his life, why would he invite a woman to sit idly next to him on a bus traveling nowhere?Īt different seasons of my life I lived as though marriage was my mission. Men should not spend more energy looking for the perfect spouse than they do on becoming a godly future husband. They no longer desired to keep as many doors open as possible, and wanted to lay aside their fear of “forsaking all others.” They desired deliverance from that subtly dangerous question: “Who is the fairest in the land?” The following counsel, by no means exhaustive, may offer helpful steps in the right direction. They wanted to break free from the pit of unrealistic expectations. How do you begin to change the eye’s definition of beauty or shape the heart’s attractions? Some responded, wanting to lay aside their search for the full-time Christian, part-time model - who is nothing less than exotic, enchanting, ethereal - and come to appreciate the imperishable beauty of the existent, born-again daughters of God around them. I wrote before on the possibility that the woman some men hold out for does not actually exist. Whether suffering from worldly ideals or an inflated sense of self, somehow all of the Christian women they meet are never quite their “type.” This is not all men, to be sure, but it is some men. ![]() ![]() Some single men miss wonderful women because they’re fixated on all the wrong things. ![]()
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