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To the girl who is overwhelmed…

You spend all day chasing your responsibilities around, debating if today is a shower day or if you’ll take the extra half hour of sleep, instead. Deciding which invitations you can accept while still taking care of the obligations you have to fulfill. Wishing you could just stop for a moment to rest. We all know this is not a sustainable way to live. The problem is, when we are so busy just trying to survive, we have no energy or time left to actually dig ourselves out of the mess we are in. The good news is, you can. Really, you must. If you don’t start running your life, your life will keep running you.

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To the girl who feels lonely…

There is the loneliness of not being around people, but also the loneliness of being unknown. When you’re around people and they know your name, and you have casual conversation, but they don’t really know you. They don’t know who you are, how you think, what you may be feeling, or how your life has been up to this point. The loneliness of being unknown, surrounded by people yet a stranger to them all. Personally, I found this loneliness to be the most isolating of all.

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To the girl who feels far from God…

I have been there so many times. I’ve felt like I’m really close to God, but then I turn around a week or a month later and realize that I haven’t prayed or spent any time with God recently. It doesn’t matter that I went to church three times and talked about God, because I didn’t talk to God. The physical proximity is there, by being in the church, but there is emotional distance that comes when we are not intentionally, mentally engaged in the relationship.

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To the girl who is apathetic…

Apathy- lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern. numbness. We can say all day long that we don’t care, that it doesn’t affect us, or that there’s nothing we can do about it, but the truth is, we do care, and it deeply affects us, but we just don’t know what we could possibly do about it. So, we go numb. Because the emotions are too much to handle, we are overwhelmed, and we can’t see a way out from under the weight of it all.

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To the girl who is single…

If you’ve felt the pressure from the world to be in a relationship, or you feel like something is wrong with you because you haven’t found “the one,” I see you, girl. Maybe it’s started to make you resent being single. Maybe you’re becoming bitter about it. Or maybe you’ve just settled in and figured you’ll just get through it until your husband finally comes along. Singleness doesn’t have to be anything like that. So, heres seven ways to make the most of being single.