The Missional Position: Myths and Musings on Being Single -http://bit.ly/gjIqj0
... ... "Our own crap and posing is eventually exposed. Our marriages hit a place of death. All of our former ideals around intimacy and success and sex and prosperity explode. And we hear that old Scripture ringing in our ear: "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground…" And we know life emerges from death.
In other words, we know the pitfalls. We've entered the "garden"…and we've discovered thorns and thistles. Many of you wish you were in our shoes, and perhaps our beds. But let me tell you the truth. Loneliness and difficulty only increase. What you wish for may come back to haunt you. And so, we all must be prepared to take the missional position – the road the less traveled, the way down, the path of the suffering Servant.
Keeping our eyes on Christ, we see that pleasure does not come in and through sin- management. We can't manipulate satisfaction and pleasure. It comes through self-abandonment, the kind of cruciform life that looks as it cannot possibly offer fulfillment. ... ... ..." Chuck DeGroat
Read the context by following the link. The Myths are interesting.
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