Brenda Rodgers

Tag: singleness

  • The One Year No Dating Challenge {An Update}

    The One Year No Dating Challenge {An Update}

    This is a real, very honest post about The One Year No Dating Challenge. I have failed you as readers and let you down tremendously regarding this challenge, and I am sorry.

    As I’ve mentioned so many times I get more emails about this challenge than anything else. At the beginning of the year I started writing a study to help you through the challenge, and I took about eight women through the study I wrote during the months of January through March. My intention was to continue writing it through the rest of the year and then offer it on the blog.

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  • Why Your Status Should Be “Single” Until You’re Married

    Several months ago I met a sweet, young, single woman for dinner. We talked and ate, and she mentioned that some friends of hers wanted to get into a small group or Bible study. She wondered if I’d be interested in leading it. So I asked her if all of the friends she was talking about were single.

    She responded by saying, “Well, two of them are and then there’s me and one other girl.”

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  • So Single Women Don’t Buy Books about Singleness?

    Back in February I attended a writing conference outside of Charlotte called Writers Bootcamp. As all writing conferencing are, it was overwhelming and encouraging all rolled into one.

    While I was at the conference someone (and when I say someone I mean someone who should know – like a published author or editor or someone like that) said that single women don’t buy books about singleness.

    Oh really?

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  • When You Want the Baby More Than the Marriage

    I did not grow up on a steady diet of princesses, castles, and the hope of prince charming. We never went to Disney World. I didn’t own princess costumes nor did I have princess dolls. I rarely watched fairy tale movies. Furthermore, I can’t ever remember a time I put white tulle on my head and marched to “Here Comes the Bride.”

    This wasn’t some calculated move by my mom, either. It just wasn’t my thing. Instead I played with Barbies (which will be another post for another day). But mostly I played with dolls.

    I wouldn’t accept just any doll, though. No, my dolls had to be completely plastic, no fabric allowed, and I only used real diapers and real bottles with them.

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  • When Your Singleness Doesn’t Match Your Convictions

    The hardest parts for me about being single were the assumptions people made. For instance, they assumed because I wasn’t married I didn’t want to be married – that I was purposely delaying marriage to build a career or find myself or have fun or whatever. When in fact, nothing could have been further from the truth. My singleness didn’t match my convictions.

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