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Welcome back friends in the next episode of our series on women's issues. Today we're going to be

talking about singleness. I have so many single readers who I value greatly and so many single

friends who bring such value to my life. And so this episode is dear to my heart having walked

through singleness myself, albeit for not as long as many of you. And remembering, so vividly,

how I felt in that season. Now I married fairly young, I married at almost 24, and I have been married

almost seven years or coming up on seven years here. So I am a married person talking about

singleness. And before we get into my notes on this topic, I do want to address something that I

occasionally hear, which is if you have not experienced what I have experienced. So in this case,

if you have not experienced singleness as long as a specific listener has, then what you have to say

is not worth listening to or what you have to say about singleness is not as impactful because you

weren't single as long. So I understand that sentiment. I definitely was not single into my 30s,

single into my 40s. And that's a whole different journey that I just can't speak to. But what I'm

endeavoring to do in this episode is simply address what scripture speaks to in regard to singleness.

This is not about my experience or your experience. It's about what scripture says. And so even though

I married, I was single at one time. I did feel those emotions and walk through specific experiences

and scripture spoke to those experiences. So regardless of how different our singleness journeys are

or the fact that I married and you are single or were single, single longer than I was, I think

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