{"id":1449,"date":"2025-03-06T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:21:15","slug":"secretarys-corner-12-february-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2025\/03\/secretarys-corner-12-february-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary’s Corner 12 – February 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Love. Such a weird word. It means so much in the English language. When I was learning Biblical Greek last year, you would not believe<\/em> how many words for love I had to memorize. English has a lot of great words. Bumbershoot. Pterodactyl. Librocubicularist. Superfluous. But love? It encapsulates just about eighty-seven different feelings with the same four letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, February is a month where people often reflect on their romantic relationships. Or, in my case, lack thereof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m young. And I\u2019m overall pretty happy with where I am in life, though I sometimes wish time would go a little faster. I have plans, hopes, dreams, places to go, things to see. But none of that matters unless that\u2019s where God is leading me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some days I feel so, so, so young, like I\u2019m never going be old enough to get to where I want to be, or experienced enough to drive that darn standard car, or even to lead in a Bible study or a devotional where I feel like I barely know what I\u2019m talking about. Then there are days when I look upon the grammar of today\u2019s youth and despair, the days I feel pleased as punch about the way I act and how I conduct myself. Then I see someone else, see something I maybe don\u2019t have, and I plummet back to feeling young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point you\u2019re probably more confused than I am about how this connects to love. I\u2019ll try to bring it together, but we might have some loose ends in this email\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All around me, I\u2019m starting to see people my age launching into life with gusto, leaping into things like college, moving out, and relationships. And I\u2019m stationary. I have a plan, but it\u2019s coming in the months ahead. And it\u2019s easy to think, what am I doing? Or, worse, what does everyone else think I should be doing? But it\u2019s not about that. My choice should not be swayed by anyone else; it should be focused on God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To sort of bring this around to love, I don\u2019t need to find a \u201crelationship\u201d in which to pursue love. I have lots <\/em>of people around me to love, including my family and friends. Why waste time bemoaning what I don\u2019t have, what I am waiting for in the future, when I can focus on right now, on letting God shape the woman I am becoming. I should focus on who I am inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, that was a bit of a ramble, but it needed to come out. So here we are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love. Such a weird word. It means so much in the English language. When I was learning Biblical Greek last year, you would not believe how many words for love I had to memorize. English has a lot of great words. Bumbershoot. Pterodactyl. Librocubicularist. Superfluous…<\/p>\n

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