Don‚Äôt Waste Your Waiting - Singleness with Alia Jones

As For Me And My House

Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity, Kids & Family, Parenting

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Practically speaking, what does preparing for marriage look like? How can we use our singleness to set ourselves up for success in marriage? In this week‚Äôs episode we bring back our good friend, Alia Jones, to share her journey to contentment in singleness while still contending for her future marriage. For many, our 20s can feel like an awkward space between grieving where we once were, while longing to be where we desire next. Alia shares her struggles with life-altering transitions and how she still honors God and her parents in the process.

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0:00.0	Hello you guys guys welcome back to Aspery my house. I have a very special guest with us today. Hello who are you?
0:17.8	Hi I'm Alia. Welcome. Alia is frequently actually behind the camera when we're doing these episodes, but we brought her to the front today.
0:27.8	She has actually been on before.
0:30.8	She shared her testimony from college like her college do you want to
0:37.5	summarize it real quick and we can link it so people can listen to it yeah
0:40.3	we definitely can link it but basically kind of just sharing my experience with college and how most Christians go to college and they lose their faith and I had a very unique experience where I grew stronger in my faith and fell more in love with Jesus.
0:56.2	And so it was kind of just like talking about that.
0:58.3	Yeah, cool.
0:59.3	Well, Alia, it's been almost three years since we've done that episode, and I know a whole lot has changed.
1:06.1	So what is life for Alia looking like nowadays?
1:09.3	Yeah, so I had like just turned 22 when we started the episode and now I'm about to be 25.
1:15.6	That's so crazy.
1:17.3	I was living with my parents, just got out of college.
1:21.0	Now I have my own apartment for the first time.
1:24.0	And yeah, just learning to navigate life.
1:28.0	Huge life change that happened last year was my parents moved across the country.
1:32.0	So they moved to Seattle, my mom is from,
1:34.1	to be with my mom's family
1:35.6	and to help take care of my grandparents.
1:37.4	And so I've been, yeah, in a major transition.
1:41.3	I feel like I still am transitioning and learning how to go about life
1:45.2	without my parents around so I feel like most in most cases it's the child that like
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