significant others and ambition

the groom (an overachiever of note) told of how he nearly broke things off with my friend because he felt she wasn't ambitious enough. intense! but understandable given the incredible business and personal achievements the groom had racked up in his short life. but then the groom told of how his wife-to-be-then responded, she said "No, you're wrong. I am ambitious. My ambition is to love my neighbour as myself".
BOOM. game over.

- from the lovely Lauren's blog

Confession: if there's anyone who I am more like in the story, it's the groom. Not that I'm that much of an overachiever, but because I'm starting to struggle increasingly more with pride, status anxiety etc...

For a long time, I've thought about who I might possibly end up with one day (if marriage is on the cards), and I've come to realize now that the characteristics I'd listed were along the line of the world's definition of success. Some of my preferences are definitely wisdom choices, but some of them were just.. unimportant, really.

Reading La's friends' story was such a helpful antidote because of the way that the girl so gently and firmly reminds the guy of what priorities are in life.

Here's to ambition, hoorah hoorah. I'm rewriting my list so that it has one thing on it: Main ambition in life must be to be more like Jesus Christ every day.

The dreaded S-word: Singleness!

The younger Sister and I were talking about marriage, and by the fifth hour (okay, I exaggerate now), I was up to the end of my tether, so I told her to get over it, to which she replied "You're just bitter cause you don't have anyone".

It was lank funny (great insult, well done), but it made me think of how the world constantly tells you you're incomplete without someone. And that's true. Only, someone should actually be Someone. Whether we're single, or married, our true partner is Christ. You are not incomplete if you do not have another person in your life... but you definitely are if you don't know God.