Hey, swell family. I hope you are continuing to have a great Wednesday. So the truth about singleness, part five, you guys, I can't believe I just. I made it to part five. It's just been so awesome. But tonight's topic is single is not a family. No, I am not a family of one. Let. I love how in society in general, we look for ways to be inclusive. And that's one thing that singles in general desire
Robert Jenkins
@Guruball1 · 2:48
It. Well, no, you're not a family. Being a single person. I'm single, but I have my son that lives with me, so we're a small family, but. And then my ex, she brings the children that she's had after we broke up to the house. So it's like we always hanging out all the time. She doesn't celebrate holidays
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 2:45
And you all make a family and you do what you want to do. A lot of people say a lot of things, and people have good intentions when they say things. But honestly, sometimes, especially people who have been married for 20 or more years, they can kind of be out of touch. And so, at their heart, things that they say, they mean they have good intentions when they say them. However, they can say them in the wrong way
Valerie Ferguson
@BigVal950 · 3:56
Or it could be something that we grew up with. We need those moments to clean our houses out. We got to clean out our houses. So don't take singleness as a crime or a sin or something wrong sometimes. Sin. It's okay to be alone, but. But don't be by yourself. So with that, I want to give you all something encouraging and something to think about throughout the night. God bless you all, and may heaven smile on
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:47
But during COVID it was a rude awakening, right? But if we're playful and open to the dialogue of people and figuring out why they get married to a language and words, then it's like, okay, if you need to yell at me because I have friends giving, like, whatever, that's your hang up
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 2:57
Just like we have people getting married to themselves. I remember seeing clips of different shows where people were getting married to themselves. What? Like, if you love yourself, then that's fine. And you have confidence, that's fine. But having an actual wedding to get married to yourself is a whole other form of vanity that I've never witnessed before. But like you said, I do understand the idea behind people saying that singleness is a family. No one wants to feel left out
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:36
It's everybody's family. These aren't just my dad's kids or my mom's kids. We're all one. And I think that's really important. And I love to see blended families that work together harmoniously to create one big family, instead of trying to decide how much relation I have with the mom or the dad or the siblings
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:12
They don't live like us. They're just not us. And so is friends giving, breaking down western family? How so? If anything, friends giving is giving a nod to traditional western family by bringing people together and not living separate lives and not moving in separate directions, but bringing people together. And that's really what family is about
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 1:51
Hey evangelist, God bless you. I hear everything you're saying and I agree. Singleness is definitely not a curse. It's definitely not something to be ashamed of, to be angry at, to be bitter about. I totally agree with all of that as the Bible tells us that we are to be content in whatsoever state we are in
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 1:14
And so I love that I'm able to share these things on a platform that allows me to speak rather than write. Because when you write certain things, it can be misconstrued, it can be misunderstood, it can be miscommunicated. People are so concerned with how many commas and things you have or if there should be a period right here, or should I break this up into two sentences instead of one, and then they use all that to misunderstand what I'm trying to communicate
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:40
But thank you so much, sis. And thank you for being part of a married couple that does open their home up to their friends and doesn't make distinctions. I love that when we can have our married and single friends together without drawing that line in the sand of single versus married