Freedom?

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Tags: Singleness

Date: 05 April 2009 21:29:16

I know there are lots of great things about being single, and lots of things that people would love to have, and things which I’m only able to enjoy because relatively speaking I am well of (in the because I live in the west sense.) That all said it doesn’t stop me sometimes moaning. I’m just fed up with always having to make decisions, always having to sort everything myself. If I don’t sort the dinner, there is none, if I don’t put petrol in the car I can’t go anywhere, if I don’t decide to go away I don’t have a holiday. I guess I’m suffering from freedom overload. Sometimes I just wish I didn’t have the freedom to do everything.

That all said I was reflecting on last weekend, when I had a lovely weekend away thinking about emergent church. I think one of the things that made it special for me, was that I didn’t have to make decisions. My friends took me. I just turned up and drove where they told me, I didn’t have to decide what time to do anything, what we were going to eat. It was a weekend where my decisions were limited in a way that gave me an enjoyable break. I guess I enjoyed it so much because it was a break from the ordinary. So I’m grateful for friends, and also grateful for the freedom in my life, but that won’t stop me moaning about it sometimes.