Single, yet with a love that cannot be lost

"Earlier, my outlook had been too dull to understand the joys of being single."

By Cynthia Alyce Neely

All Of My Friends were either married or dating, but I was neither married nor dating. In fact, as a single parent, I had yearned for several years to be married again. But it hadn't happened. Tiring of this unsatisfied desire, I decided to stand up to the feeling of being alone, separated from love and companionship. I needed to understand and accept my inseparable relation to God, divine Love.

Reaching out for new ideas, I listened again to a tape of the Christian Science Sentinel—Radio Edition in which a woman spoke of trying to decide which of two men she would marry. Her thought changed from wondering whom she should marry, to asking what would bless her most—being single or being married?

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