"Give me a museum and I'll fill it" -Picasso

I made these.

Enjoy.

xoxo

A single girl's priorities in a world full of couples

A somewhat unrelated picture, because blogging.

I live on a Christian College campus. Needless to say, I hear plenty about relationships. "Did you HEAR the news. You will NOT believe Matt and Sarah got ENGAGED!" (giggles/screams to follow). You know the drill. Give the appropriate amount of excitement and move on with your lives.

Yes, engagements and relationships are exciting! That's why we frikin talk about them so much. And they are interesting. The dynamics of relationships are complicated and fascinating. And, being Christians living dutifully on our Christian College campus, we go to the seminars and the chapel sermons about relationships, get adequately excited, and after it's been a sufficient amount of time, we pretend we aren't anymore, but secretly on the inside we still are. 

Don't tell me this is just me.

Lately, though, something has been bothering me. It happened a couple nights ago, and it was actually something I said to someone else. BUT, in my defense, it is something I have heard said to me and so many other girls countless times. I said to one of my friends: "you deserve a guy who is going to love you the way you deserve to be loved." If you are a girl, guaranteed you've heard something along those lines from another girl. 

Okay ladies. This is true, I'm not trying to say it isn't. But this is also true: our future guy deserves a girl who is going to love him the right way. The way he deserves to be loved. 

We spend our time dreaming about relationships and about the right guy for us, and we forget to develop our own loving skills. If we just wait around for a guy to come for us, once he does come, we will just be taking love from him that he's giving us. A relationship is about giving love to each other, not about just being loved. 

You are not in the relationship because you deserve someone to love you. You are in the relationship because your partner deserves love from you. 

If we just wait around, we will forget the purpose of a love like this. Be in a relationship with someone because you have the capacity to love them well. Not because you are searching for love. 

Next time you are feeling sorry for yourself, remember that your purpose is to love, because someone is out there for you and they deserve your awesome lovin'. Work on loving others well. Please, don't just wait around for "the one." They're not going to come until you're ready. And if you can love them well, it will be glorious. Bells will ring, fireworks, emotions, maybe tears, etc. 

Send your lovin' to someone who deserves it!

xoxo