Amazed and honored, I want to share that email (with permission!) with you all, for many of you have faithfully prayed for me and financially supported me during that time. Without your generosity, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to write this article which is still bearing fruit 3 years later! Seems appropriate for me to pass along this "thank you" to you all, too. Be encouraged.
Hi Sarah,
I have been going through the Cru:InTransition workbook this summer and am compelled to write you after reading the article you wrote for it about singleness.
I want to say thank you so much for taking a different approach to this subject and speaking such truth and encouragement. God really used your words to encourage me and help me work through issues I have been struggling with.....
...So many books take the approach that you need to change something about yourself to get out of singleness because clearly it is the undesired state of life. As a young Christian woman I have struggled greatly with feeling like less of a person and socially backwards for never dating, and books like this only seem to exacerbate my feelings and create more wounds. Very few books, and people for that matter, talk about singleness as a gift and what a blessing it is and how to not waste it. It seems like every external force and influence says "Quick! Get married! You're single? Oh how sad..." and people tend to offer condolences more than excitement and encouragement.
Your article is by far the best source of encouragement I have ever read on this subject and it was such an answer to prayer in my life right now. Working through the questions and thinking about life goals is something I've never connected to singleness but it was such a blessing to address those topics together.
I cannot even begin to explain to you what a blessing your words are to my life, or thank you enough for allowing yourself to be used so powerfully!
I know that article is a few years old and obviously I have no idea where you are at in life, but I trust that God is daily using you in profound ways, and again, I just wanted to say THANK YOU and let you know what an encouragement your life is to mine.
Be blessed!
Cait
Want to see that article for yourself or a friend? You can order InTransition at www.CruPress.com Look for it under the SEND resources tab.
2 comments:
What a blessing you are to people. And how nice, that she repsonded wtih thanks even if it were a few years later. I received a "thank you" from a grandma of a girl I had mentored for 1/2 hr. week when when she was in 2nd grade. Her gr-grma died during that time and I gave her a card and we talked about her gma. Her gma says she still talks about that today - she is in 8th or 9th grade. We never know what little things changes a persons life - and I didn't think it was such a big deal at the time.
K Grieser
The thank-you note was beautiful! We're proud of you and happy to say you're our daughter-in-law!
Love and prayers, Mom Evers
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