Valentine’s Day. The mere words can cause utter joy for many as thoughts of red roses, candy of the chocolate variety and sparkly unknowns manifest inside the minds of these optimists. Yet for others, this Singles Awareness Day ( as it is otherwise known), can make this time of pink hearts, red flowers and overall lovey-dovey mushiness, a nauseating reminder of loneliness and broken dreams.
At City Church this past Sunday, February 14th, Kyle Bonenburger and his wife Lisa gave a united message of a different brand of love to their crowd of both happy couples and hurting hearts. The duo challenged their congregation to “focus on who God wants us to be.” Lisa and Kyle shared their story of how they met and fell in love, but more importantly, spoke of the importance of focusing our energy on living our lives focused on God’s plan for us.
Addressing the full crowd before him, Pastor Kyle said that we should not stop our lives because we are only focused on finding a relationship. He said we should take this time to enrich our lives and grow, with God at the helm.
Lisa shared her husband’s words by elaborating on this concept. Our blue-eyed speaker said that we should “be content in our stage of life.” She elaborated telling her audience that we should enjoy our life right now becuase it is constantly changing.
Our pastor says to find the stage of contentment in our lives, we often have to "go back to the basics," and remind ourselves of the love
that God has for us. He also reminded his audience that those who are
in relationships need to remember to support and love each other. In
many cases this means that women need to hear that they are loved and men need to hear that they are respected.
Perhaps a quote from a late actress will help sum up and important part of this past Sunday's message:
"Love yourself first and
everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to
get anything done in this world." -Lucille Ball
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Wed, February 17, 2010
by Jamie Quarles
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