Your Better Half
Weaving in and out of conversations amidst friends and colleagues, I find the silver stranded cliche of "one's better half" mingled with the various light and dark colors of everone's life. Pondering this term, I have taken for granted most if not all of my life, I've come to realize that I never want to be someone's better half.
If I am their better half, what does that make them? Do I want to spend the rest of my life with a man's worst half? I think not! Do I want anybodies half of anything? Another resounding NO!
Cultivation of these thoughts couries a quandry at the door of my reason. Am I only half a person? Have I been taught that I am to be half a person until that "significant other" appears and completes me? How selfish a notion! That is quite a laborous yoke to place on anyone.
I am not saying that we do not help one another or meet some of each other's needs. The conclusion I have come to is that I want to be a WHOLE PERSON with or without someone else. The only way that can be achieved is through Jesus Christ.
If I am a whole person, imperfect as I am, then my significant other is free to be a whole person also..We can stop spending so much time caring for each other's needs and tend to the things God has for us, working as a team, pulling the same cart, not training each other in the yoke.
Presently, I do not have a significatnt other, (I don't want to lead you all astray), however, the mountain I am scaling is asking, seeking, and finding wholeness from Jesus. I am fifty years old, that's a long time to be only "half a person" . I want to be whole, thus, while I am single, if that be His will for the rest of my life, then I can be His completely, to do His bidding.
And...if he does bring someone in my life (a whole person, I hope) then we can submit ourselves to the one who ultimately meets our needs whethere He uses us directly for that or not. We can then spend the energy and time we have helping others in whatever ways Jesus has us do.......
I know this sounds altruistic, but, at least for now...it is my goal....
Ever and Always
Beth
If I am their better half, what does that make them? Do I want to spend the rest of my life with a man's worst half? I think not! Do I want anybodies half of anything? Another resounding NO!
Cultivation of these thoughts couries a quandry at the door of my reason. Am I only half a person? Have I been taught that I am to be half a person until that "significant other" appears and completes me? How selfish a notion! That is quite a laborous yoke to place on anyone.
I am not saying that we do not help one another or meet some of each other's needs. The conclusion I have come to is that I want to be a WHOLE PERSON with or without someone else. The only way that can be achieved is through Jesus Christ.
If I am a whole person, imperfect as I am, then my significant other is free to be a whole person also..We can stop spending so much time caring for each other's needs and tend to the things God has for us, working as a team, pulling the same cart, not training each other in the yoke.
Presently, I do not have a significatnt other, (I don't want to lead you all astray), however, the mountain I am scaling is asking, seeking, and finding wholeness from Jesus. I am fifty years old, that's a long time to be only "half a person" . I want to be whole, thus, while I am single, if that be His will for the rest of my life, then I can be His completely, to do His bidding.
And...if he does bring someone in my life (a whole person, I hope) then we can submit ourselves to the one who ultimately meets our needs whethere He uses us directly for that or not. We can then spend the energy and time we have helping others in whatever ways Jesus has us do.......
I know this sounds altruistic, but, at least for now...it is my goal....
Ever and Always
Beth
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