Monthly Archives: May 2009

try wait..

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Arnel Data

I guess you’d say, what can make me feel this way… MY GIRL!”

You know women are the greatest creations of God… for a man that is.  God created Eve as a companion for Adam… Here me out, he CREATED HER for him.  God did not just grab any ball of mud and hand it over to Adam and say “Here’s your wife.”  HE actually took a piece of Adam (his rib) and created Eve.  God used a piece of Adam to bless him.  Now days we can’t give our ribs to God, but we can give HIM our HEARTS.

Men listen, waiting is tough.  As a guy we try too hard sometimes to grasp what is not there.  We try to embody our wants and needs into a woman figure in order to satisfy our own selfish endeavors.  Who are we fooling, this never works.  We all ask for more but yet we SETTLE for less.  I know our God who loves us so dearly would not fetch us a ball of mud and say “HERE YA GO SON, AINT SHE BEAUTIFUL.”  No! God does not work like that, our God wants what is best for us.

In past relationships I got so sick of settling.  It was the worst thing ever, fall for a girl, nope she’s not it move to the next one.  The vicious cycle of trial and error, all the while being a pompous jerk and leaving a trail of broken hearts.  I so dearly apologize for all my past actions, but like Brandon Heath’s song “I’M NOT WHO I WAS.”  The worst part of settling is that there is the FALSE belief that “I can change her.”  Little did I know, you can never change a person only God can.

I see couples argue all the time.  That is the reward for being impatient.  Galatians 6:9 states that we reap what we sow.  If we give God only parts of us, then we will only get parts of what we want in a relationship.  The rest of it is straight Hades.  This is not saying that certain couples were not meant to be, its that they weren’t ready.  They say patience is a virtue, well I say patience is my duty!  Look at it like baking, you got all your ingredients, love, trust, honesty, etc, etc… but youre missing patience, the cake is not going to taste as good as it should, may even be too sweet.  But add patience… CREME DELA CREME!

Here’s a story, a couple meet in order to determine if they were right for each other.  Both agree that they were equally attracted to one another by looks, personality, and everything else that makes us human.  The Guy says to the girl “I’M not READY.”  The girl is in silence… the guy explains “If I am to be your husband one day, I want to be the best HUSBAND I can be for you, in turn I want you to be the best WIFE you can be for me.”  The girl tears, and says “that’s the most beautiful thing anyone has ever said to me…”

In this whole situation, both guy and girl knew they were good for each other, yet they realized they were not perfected for one another yet.  Out of their own humility they part ways and hand the situation to the ONE who does the perfecting.

Its so easy to be distracted by the now that we overlook the EVERLASTING.  So many times we go into it head sprung.  To simplify it, we go into the baseball game, yet we don’t have a bat…

Who knows we may already have met “the one” but until God is finished with her, she is still yet everything but.  Let’s not rush anymore, nuff of trial and error, let’s get it right the first time, for most of us the NEXT TIME!  God promises that HE will give us the desires of our HEARTS, we first, must give our HEARTS to HIM!

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to GOD. And the peace of GOD, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus”- PHIL 4:6&7 TRY WAIT!

the art of being single..

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Team KGKL:

Jayson Reynon

Have you ever really thought about the single life?  I mean really thought about it.  The thought occurred to me today that being single is truly an art form.  I mean in all facets of its essence, singleness requires different pieces of life being put together to create one entire being, YOU!  Think about words that describe great artists and their masterpieces.  Some that come to my mind are: patient, beautiful, stunning, diverse, masterpiece, creative, unique, one of a kind.  And there are also those not so good words: artist block, ugly, frustration, torn, boring, difficult.

Don’t each of these words perfectly describe the single lifestyle?  I know they certainly do in my case.  Every time I think about being single, I find it a joyous time in my life where I know I can do whatever I want, whenever I want.  But yet, there are those times where I long to be married, to create another beautiful masterpiece that is my marriage, to the wonderful blessing from God, called my wife.

As all great artists do, they must contemplate on the direction they want to take with their painting.  It is the same for being single.  What direction should my singleness take?  Should it be constantly seeking the “one” or should it be constantly seeking the “Holy One.”  Although at times, the art of being single can be frustrating, dull, and boring.  And I speak from experience.  Only through great patience and times of trial can an artist (us) create a beautiful masterpiece of our singleness.

Artists can simply submit mediocre works of art and be done with it.  But I do not know any artist who settles for mediocrity.  Full satisfaction must come from their finished piece or they probably will not put it on display for others to see.  The same must be said of our singleness.

Our God did not create us for mediocrity.  He created us for excellence.  He wants not to just bless us but to bless us abundantly.  And He does have a masterpiece ready for us whenever the time is right.  But He also has a masterpiece ready for us right now in the midst of being single.  It takes a lot of patience, skill, and creativity to be content in being single.

There are beautiful and attractive men and women of God all around us.  But there can be only one destined for us by the ultimate Creator.  And we can’t really just sit and wait around for the next masterpiece in our life to be created if we haven’t worked on the masterpiece of ourselves.

I am not saying that we need to become masterpieces in single life in order to create the masterpiece of marriage.  What I am trying to pass across is that being single is the time where we learn how to paint, what different brushes do, what colors look best, how to texture, etc. (metaphorically speaking of course).

Again, an artist can simply slap something on a piece of canvas and call it a painting.  But will it ever be considered a masterpiece?  Probably not.  Not in the way God had intended it at least.

Two incomplete or half-efforted pieces of art put together will almost never create a masterpiece.  But imagine if two, beautiful works of art are put together to create an even more beautiful, larger masterpiece.  So that when people look at that masterpiece, they will be in such a great admiration for how much work the artists put into that piece.  Now that is the way God must have intended it.

Jesus Loves You