A Single Reflection
Column by Eileen Hershberger

Sitting on the back porch on a beautiful fall, Sunday afternoon and soaking up the last rays of summer sunshine, I am reminded how much of life is about change. Much like the seasons change every year,
so do our lives. It is subtle sometimes, barely noticeable but always constant, always a part of us. Other times, the changes in our lives are like the changing of the leaves, a bit at a time but then a sudden, bright explosion of color (or change). 

How do you address change in your life? Do you embrace it and squeeze every moment out of it, learning from the changes and letting them make you a better person or do you hide from them, resenting the fact that life does change?  

You’re single right now. Are you preparing for the fact that may and probably will change sometime in your life? Are you making the best of every opportunity you have now to embrace life and to grow in your relationship with Jesus? Are you doing things now that you have always dreamed of doing, embracing the opportunity to do them without the responsibilities of a relationship hanging over them?  You will never again have this season in your life because things will change. You may meet that special someone, you may have a new career opportunity, your parents may require more and more support from you, the list goes on and on.  

The challenge for us as singles, is to not let this season in our lives be wasted. We need to embrace every opportunity that God brings our way to live our life to the fullest. Take that trip that you have always wanted to take. Learn how to play a new sport, stick to that exercise and diet routine you started last week, pursue that dream career. What ever it may be, GO FOR IT! Become disciplined enough to have what it takes to make those dreams come true. Life is much too short to spend it waiting. We need to be women after God’s heart that are not afraid to live life to the fullest and embrace the changes in our lives as they come.