Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Lean Not on Your Own Understanding
In different conversations and posts on the blog, we've mentioned wondering if we're called to singleness and how a single person can do God's work. Well, I just found this article on a web-zine geared toward college-age folks, and it discusses Martin Luther as a single man (a monk, actually) and a woman named Kate (a nun) and both knew they would be single the rest of their lives and were committed to doing God's work. However, they ended up marrying each other and transformed the church as a married couple. It's an interesting story and a great example of how you can plan out and think you understand your life, but God may have other plans for you. Here's the link: http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001696.cfm?eafref=1
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I like the Luther example -- a lot. What a blessing they were to the church.
I really like it a lot too, and I knew that Luther really changed the church, but I had no idea about his life outside of that. It's such a cool and inspiring story. Kinda gives hope, really. And I like the way it shows that both single and married people have contributions to make to God's plan.
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