The M.R.S. Degree & A God Written Love Story

"Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."

What you ask is the M.R.S. Degree? Well ladies, that is none other than the degree in which you go to college to find your Hubby. There are many women out there that go to college looking to find their happily ever after. Me? During those quick 4 years of my life, that was the furthest thing from my mind. Don't get me wrong... I dated quite a few "men" but I wanted to have fun, date around. Knock out all the kinks early so I knew the exact type of man that I would want to spend the rest of my life with.

Little did I know that all of the guys I dated then have now turned into temporary moments of happiness. I have given away parts of me that I can never get back. At the time, I thought I knew what I was doing. Now after reading the book When God Writes Your Love Story, I want to tell you all some of the wonderful things that God has placed on my heart to share...

I want to start off by sharing a quote from the book that I found quite funny. One of the authors Eric explains a night when he was 19 and wondered where his future wife was in this world...

"I pondered the fact that it was a Friday night and there was a full moon in the sky. I wondered if she was also looking at the moon and maybe even thinking of me. Everything was lovely. Then it hit me: She'd better not be with a guy!"

One of my favorite parts in the book was where they talk about living every day of your life for your spouse. Every day of my life? Wow. I hadn't even thought about the fact that I could be living for my husband without even knowing who he was at this very moment.

Too many woman become desperate. They are hungry for attention and affection, so they settle for guys who don't know the first thing about how to treat a woman. They are impatient - they don't trust that God could have something better for them. So they compromise. They give themselves to men who really aren't worth a second glance.

Sometimes in relationships, we can be so caught up in our feelings for the other person that we squeeze God into the background.

I've done this time and time again with past relationships. I wanted them to work so badly and I'd pray and pray about it and wonder where God was in all of this.

It became a confusing, emotional mess, and I wondered why God wasn't giving me more direction, when all the while if I had looked hard enough, He was there, wanting to be allowed back into first place in my heart. Through reading this book, I've come to understand that only when He is truly in first place are we ready for a God-written love story.

I now know that I need to learn to lean on my relationship with Christ for my hope, joy, and security, rather than trying to find those things in a romantic relationship.

Lord, this is such a hard area to give to You. I desperately want to hold on to it and do things my way. Yet I know You are asking me to lay it in Your hands, to let You take charge of it. So now I give it to You. No matter what you choose to do with this area of my life, even if it's something I never would have chosen for myself, I give it to You. Do with me what You will. I am Yours.

I think that every single "twenty something" lady who has ever had doubts about being alone, should pick this book up... I promise, it will change your life forever.