Someone please turn off the loooove faucet!

So, spring is just around the corner, and I SWEAR someone just turned on the love faucet full force. My facebook, twitter and email are all full of people getting together, getting engaged, and just plain declaring their love for one another.

While, I know this is all part of God's good design, it's just another reminder that I'm single, and the majority of my friends, are not.

I've been praying a lot about marriage lately. Praying for God's timing, acknowledging that He is sovereign in His choice for who I will marry, praying that He will align my will to His. My singleness weighs heavy on my heart, like a weight around my neck. Sometimes, when I'm in Sunday School, or at dinner with friends, I feel like there's a neon sign hanging over my head, flashing in bright pink that says "Single," "Flawed," "Comes with Baggage."

While I feel I need to counsel myself out of this funk that accompanies the Single-in-Spring blues, I also know that when it happens, it happens.

My sister, who was 29 when she married, once told me that the wait for marriage was hard, but when you find the right person, the wait didn't seem to matter at all. Granted, she's now married, so of course the lonely nights, the tear-stained pillows, and the forced smiles are going to be a distant memory. But, I still think of that statement and hope that one day, in the not-so-far futuer, I will find someone, and then, I to will get to say, "That wait didn't matter at all."