Like most young people growing up, I always assumed that someday I would get married and have a family. When I was in college, I even picked out the hymn I wanted to be sung at my wedding.
I was a bit of a late bloomer as far as social interactions with the opposite sex, not really pursuing relationships in any serious way until I had completed college and started my career. When I did begin to seek out relationships in a more intentional way, I enjoyed relationships with a number of godly women, although I never felt a real sense of God’s peace and confirmation in any of the relationships I pursued. In fact, the overwhelming sense of God’s grace, peace, and positive confirmation invariably would come whenever I was not in a relationship rather than when I was in a relationship.
Over time, questions began to develop in my own thinking: Had God given me the “gift” of singleness? What exactly was the “gift” of singleness? Were both singleness and marriage gifts? And was the gift of singleness for a season, or would it be a lifetime calling?
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