There’s this delicate tension I have always felt here, writing at Triple Braided. I’ve told bits and pieces of its journey before, but I think I’ll tell some of it again because it doesn’t seem to go away. I say tension, but it’s not a bad tension. It’s a tension to want to serve all my readers with my words.

You see, I am obviously married. But I desperately want to disciple single women because no one discipled to me properly when I was single. And I was single for longer than I wanted to be. And it was painful. And now I know there was a better way. At the time I just didn’t know that way. I want to be for others what I didn’t have myself.

However, even though I’ve written here inconsistently at times and without a focus much of the time, I have found that I also have married readers. This is where the tension lies. I don’t think single women want to read about marriage and baby topics just like married readers probably don’t want to read about dating.

So there’s my delicate tension.

I bring all this up because recently I asked you to take a short survey. Personally, I love taking surveys. I don’t know why except I think they’re fun. Maybe it’s because I get to talk about myself. Anyway . . .

The results of the survey are just wonderful! All of you actually wrote out sentences to the answers! I know that takes more time and thought than just clicking an answer, and I want to tell you “thank you” tons because they have helped me tremendously.

So here is some of what I’ve learned about you, the readers of Triple Braided.

62.96% are single.

37.04% are married.

33.33% like posts about your relationship with Jesus.

29.17% like posts about mentoring younger women because you’re married.

16.67% like posts about singleness.

16.67% also like posts about dating.

4.17% like posts about current hot topics.

Most of the readers are in their 30’s with the 20-age-range coming in second.

So where do I go from now? I’m going to continue to write for both of you – single and married – to hopefully serve both of you well. Jesus is my favorite person to write about, so that’s good most of you like that, and the great thing is He’s for ALL of us and relationship neutral!

Mentoring is also very close to my heart, and so I am going to probably start adding in some of those posts. One reader mentioned that she’d like posts about preparing for marriage. That sounds like a good idea to me. I know some single women really don’t like to talk about marriage at all. If you stop by on a “marriage day”, please just come back another day. There will be something for everyone.

And in closing, thank you for being here above all else! You do not know how much joy you and this blog brings me!

A Lot of Prayer

In just a few weeks we are starting a Summer Online Bible study right here! We will be reading the book Lies Women Believe by Nancy Leigh DeMoss, and I thought this verse would be perfect to pray over you this weekend.

Jesus is the bread of life. Have you ever really thought about those words? Jesus is the one, the only one, who gives us our nourishment. But I want you to think past bread as food to meet a physical need. In this verse, Jesus says He is the bread of LIFE! Not just physical life, and not just life in heaven one day, but Jesus is the source of our life now. If we ever hope to experience abundant life here, on this earth, then we must go to Jesus and believe in Jesus.

I’m praying today that you are going to the right source for your nourishment so that you can experience abundant life right now, wherever you are.

 

And a Little Encouragement

I’m so excited about this!! 

Starting May 28th we’ll be going through the Bible/book study Lies Women Believe by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. I want you to join me!

You don’t have to buy a book! Yes, a book will help you go deeper, but every week I will post study notes and scripture for you to read and work through.

All you need to do is go to the private Facebook group here and say “hey”!!

And here are the links I’ve read this week!

Everyone, but especially single friends, please listen to this short podcast by Tricia Goyer! She interviewed Holley Gerth about her new book You’re Going to be Okay, and Holley talks about so much great stuff – our brains and how we can replace lies with God’s truth (how perfect is that timing!) and the desires of our hearts! I wish I could just copy the transcript here because it’s so good!

Plus, did you check out my guest post on RebeccaHalton.com? I wrote about a lie that I think many single women believe (I know I did!), plus Rebecca is a single woman, an author, and she has an amazing God story. Be sure to check her out!

And Even Some Fun

This week’s Cents of Style Fashion Friday Deal: Everything nautical! This is perfect for spring/summer! This Fashion Friday, 5/16/14, they  have nautical inspired accessories for 50% off the marked price with the coupon code: SEA. 

 

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Praying for you this weekend! Leave your requests below!