WANTED: Life Partner

I scared my father recently in a way that was a lot of fun. I told him I met a guy who would make a great husband. And I have. Maybe not for me, but he will make some woman very lucky.

A few months ago, a friend of mine was worried because all of his friends were beginning to get engaged. He's a few years older than me, but I have to admit that I'm getting to that point in my life as well. While I still do date some of the time, there is more of a point behind going out. I'm at the point in my life where I enjoy going out, but I want to settle down. I don't want to spend all my time looking for something. I want to find it.

There are so many years of our lives that we use in ways that we sometimes regret. We waste our time in meaningless relationships and we fail to recognize the gifts we have in time to keep them. The only problem is that when we begin to look for the thing it is that we want, we find that it has suddenly disappeared. The people we find have either found what they are looking for or aren't looking at all.

It's about the time of the quarter life crisis many university students the desire for someone to spend the rest of our lives with becomes more evident. Sometimes we're not so aware of it and seek many empty relationships to fill a hole in ourselves. Other times we get to the point of desperation that we place ads to find the person we want. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

The one thing that many people won't look for to fill the hole we begin to feel is to faith. It's interesting because in a society with a divorce rate of 1 in 3, sometimes a faith relationship is the only guarantee of a lasting one. It doesn't always relieve the desire for a physical relationship in your life, but it does give the most lasting life partner anyone could ask for.