Not Alone Series: Introduction

Welcome to the very first post of the "Not Alone Series"! Weekly topics to be posted on Tuesdays will be chosen and we hope that you will join us in sharing your experiences! This first week we thought it'd be good to just have a meet-and-greet of sorts so we can all get an idea of who we all are and where we're coming from! So without further adieu....I better start talking about myself.....

I'm Morgan. (hopefully you gathered that much already...) Living in central IL and working for the largest statewide collegiate pro-life organization in the nation. I work with college students on the daily, giving them the support and training necessary to effectively build a Culture of Life on their campuses. It's a pretty thrilling being on the ground floor of the Pro-Life movement. Super thrilling and super humbling. 

I've been doing what I do for one year (today is my one year anniversary!!) which means, yup...I'm 23. 

A whole 23 years old which I'm told is so. young. (ugh. don't say it.) 

Which is a nice segway into where I'm at in my singleness journey...

My friend group from college is made of people who have coupled off and are either nearing engagement, engaged, married, or married with babies. And of course I'm happy for all of them, but that atmosphere does make it difficult to be "okay" with being one of the only single people. And while I've been here in Champaign for a year, most of my friends are married. Which, like I said, is awesome....just hard sometimes because they can't fully relate to what I'm feeling because my closest girlfriends here in town got married straight out of college and one of them is due with a BABY BOY IN TWO WEEKS!!!! (and I live only a few blocks away!!! eeeee!!!)

So it isn't always easy being single, but today....today, I'm content. And truth be told, I've become more and more content over the past couple months...but that's not to say that I don't have my days (or weeks) where I can't stand to be around couples because I so long to have that connection with someone (THAT is the danger, ladies. (or gentlemen?)). But I'm finally getting to a point where I'm learning to embrace my singleness. I'm learning to appreciate what's good about my life right now...I mean, just because I'm single doesn't mean that everything good in my life is negated. Which to some people might sound like a stupid mindset, but I know that most single people have felt that way at one point or another.

Which is why I am so excited about this series! I know that there are others out there like me and Jen, and I love "mommy bloggers" (I know they hate that label...sorry...), but we need to be able to read about topics that pertain to life as it is NOW, not what it may be in the future. And everyone has something to share that might help another!

(PS We don't discriminate! If you're married, but think you have something to share that could be helpful, please do! Your seasoned viewpoint is very welcome!)

Sooooooo enough about me....we want to hear read about YOU! If you would, join us in this little meet-and-greet so we can all get to know one another a little bit better....what you write about is completely up to you, we'd just like to know about you and your life at this moment! 

Link up below and please be sure to include a text link back to this post in your post!

Next week's topic:

Discernment

anything and everything you want to talk about in relation to discerning your vocation