The Big Idea

Today I just want to listen to Mason Jennings and watch the rain. But it's not raining. And I have work to do. But I am listening to Mason Jennings, so at least my lazy desire is half-way fulfilled.

I have an idea. It's kind of big. It's nothing new or revolutionary; but for some reason, I believe due to recent events and conversations, it all just clicked in my head...this idea. Here it is:

What if you received an email from God tomorrow that said something like, "On May 16, 2008, you will meet "the one". He is perfect for you." How would your life look different? What would you start doing for the next 2 years? Here's what I'd do:

LIVE. Live more freely than I know how. I'd start traveling more, spend a ton of time with friends, meet new people, pick up new hobbies, spend and treasure time with my family, paint a lot, coach a soccer team, grow as a person, do some good for this world....etc, etc...I would do everything I want to do while still single.

You know what I wouldn't do? Date. Chase. Myspace stalk. Over-analyze. Pursue. Hunt. Trying to find "the one" would instantly become a pointless activity because you know he's coming in May '08. Any start of any relationship, beyond friendship, with the opposite sex would be a waste of time. Why continue to give little pieces of your heart away to those that aren't "the one"? It would start feeling like betrayal.

I feel like so much of our lives as single twenty-somethings is spent searching for a partner. SEARCHING. We search. We crush. We over-analyze every move of the opposite sex. We obsess with our same-sex friends. And you know where it generally gets us? NOWHERE. Most of the time we wind up hurt and feeling less whole. We spend so much time and energy on something that leaves us bruised.

POINTLESS. I'm done.

I have no email with a date from God. But I have trust. Not an over-abundance, but at least some. And I hope my some will increase to overflowing...I hope I can fully trust that God will bring about Mr. Right at the right time, His time. Not mine. None of my pursuits have worked... which increases my faith that His WILL.

What if it never happens? What if I never get "the one"? Well, I believe it will happen. It is truely a desire of my heart to be with someone. And God, our Creator and Father, loves to give us our heart's desires. But, in the case that i don't get "him", SO BE IT! Because over the next two years, as I learn to live freely, I'm sure I will find out that I am complete as is. No one person will complete me. If more people realized they were complete the way they were made, I think we'd have more happy people walking around.

"Life has no limit, if you're not afraid to get in it." -Mason Jennings

Here I go...