Singleness and the ‘new normal’

Rachel Jones  |  Comment
Date posted:  1 Aug 2020
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Singleness and the ‘new normal’

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Whatever our situation, we’re all in the process of working out how to thrive in the ever-changing, but never-quite-as-much-as-we’d-like, ‘new normal’. And it strikes me that, for single Christians, there are particular challenges.

Granted, most of this summer’s weddings have been cancelled – at least, those of any size. That may be a pro or a con, depending on whether you view weddings as the most fun a person can have on a Saturday, or more like an all-day endurance sport event.

I digress. In the old normal, it was (mostly) easy to see how singleness and marriage brought with them a mix of joys and struggles, privileges and responsibilities, advantages and disadvantages, that more or less evened out. In the words of Paul to the Corinthians: ‘One has this gift, another has that’ (1 Cor. 7:7). Apples and oranges… but all good fruit.

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