Spiritually Healthy

Like many young, unmarried women, I think about the day when I get to meet and marry the one God has made for me.  I was laying in bed one night and thinking about the possibility of getting married when it hit me:   it is silly to want to be married just for the sake of being married.   Do I believe that God created us with a desire to be one with another?  Absolutely.  Remember: He made Eve for Adam.  God saw that it wasn't good for man to be alone ( Genesis 2:18 ) so He made Eve.  I have been created for man - not all men, mind you, but for one man - my future husband. As the days and years go by it gets harder and harder to imagine being a wife and mother, and yet, with each passing year the desire becomes more intense.  The flame burns brighter.  I think about him (my future husband) more.  I catch myself thinking about possible future children; who they would look like, etc.  I do think these things.  However,...

I was thinking about something the other day and this line came to mind; it made me think which caused me ask myself this question:  Am I brave?  I don't think I'm very brave. In fact, I think that when hard times come, or difficult situations arise, I try to smooth over the confrontation. "Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void." Are you brave?   What are some things that define your  bravery?

It's been 21 days since the new year.   Where is the time going to, people? I don't know about you, but I had a plan this new year, and like most people it was to get into better shape.  I knew going into 2014 (still can't believe that it's 2014!) that things for me where going to be busy, and that they were going to get busy fast!  Still, I planned on carving out time for workouts and things like that.  I was pumped and ready to start working out!  Then we had a cold snap...like a really bad, 18 degrees-cold-snap.  And most of my running (well all of my running) was to be done outside.  I just couldn't run in 18 degrees.  I'm not that  adventurous. *laughs* Then it "warmed" up to the 30's and 40's and I was super excited to finally get moving!   Then we got sick...again. This was out 3rd in a row  time being sick!  Ugh!  I woke up and felt, well, sick and I knew that I couldn't run, even though I planned on working ...