By Coleen York I know a lot of guys and girls who have settled in their relationships. They were afraid nothing else was coming. They got comfortable. They found out details about their significant other long after they began dating and made excuses because they were already attached and scared of starting over. And some
By Coleen York “He completes me.” “She’s my better half.” “I just knew there was something missing … until I met him.” If you’ve been breathing for about half a millisecond, you’ve probably heard someone somewhere saying some version of these statements. Maybe YOU have even proclaimed one of these clichéd, yet popular, sayings. Not
By Coleen York When I was 19, I found myself sitting in a Christian therapist’s office spilling my guts about relationships. How they sucked. How they hurt. How badly I wanted one that wouldn’t suck or hurt. Five years of less-than stellar relationship picks and decisions had led me to that point. It seemed that
By Coleen York For years I thought that after finding “the one” I would automatically have less than “one” problem. Or at least my problems would be significantly less important. Probably my biggest problem would be trying to decide where we should go on our fabulous honeymoon or if I wanted paper or plastic bags
By Coleen York There’s no denying our lives revolve around relationships. It’s the way we were created: to be in relationship first with God, and then with others. There’s something circuited into the heart of every one of us that yearns for fellowship, for communication and understanding. But for years I thought that in order
By Coleen York There are about 40 billion paradoxes in the Bible. Yeah, yeah, I know I’m completely exaggerating. But there are a lot. The thing about paradoxes is that they don’t usually make sense logically. The math just often seems wrong… “What do you mean the last will be first, Jesus? How can someone
By Coleen York Boy meets girl. Boy thinks girl is pretty cute. Boy and girl hang out once. Boy and girl discover that both are Christians. Girl goes home and decides boy could be soul mate….because boy loves Jesus. And boy is kind of hot and has nice teeth. And to girl’s knowledge, boy has
By Coleen York Turning this way and that in the dressing-room mirror, I let out a long sigh. This outfit did not look as good on me as it had in the catalogue. Or on the headless mannequin. I bit my lip. A tell-tale sign I was becoming distressed. Next my fingernails would fly up
By Coleen York I love ice cream. Seriously, I do. You know what else I love? Chocolate. Almost as much as I love my high-heeled peep-toe Oxford pumps. I love the smell of wet pavement in the summer. I love sweatpants. I also love watching The Office. I love my parents. I love my boyfriend.
By Coleen York There is something built into the heart of a woman that yearns to be pursued. She desires to be sought after. To feel like she is worth the trouble/pleasure of a man’s time and affection. That she is interesting enough, and captivating enough, to go the extra mile for. It’s exhilarating, being
