{part 1 of 4} Cliché’s Unmarried’s Hear: You Deserve God’s Best For You

by erika haveman

Recently a boy liked me.

Shocking! Right? Right. He was genuine, caring, hard working, good with money, didn’t consider getting drunk as a good Friday night plan. He supported my faith and the speaking ministry I was busy leading and travelling to in order to fulfill opportunity after opportunity. He was great. I could always count on a “good morning” and a “good night.” It felt nice to not only be thought of on a daily basis but also engaged with by another human being. I liked him, and I knew it.

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Nobody does a VIRGIN

The words were splayed across her bare back, taunting girls that their virginity is something to be less than valued.  As if nobody will accept and by extension love a girl if she hasn’t had sex before.  That girls who weren’t willing to bare it all, just to be “did”, were girls that were a little less than human, hardly woman at all; girls unwilling to “put out” aren’t worth anybody’s time, and if a girl isn’t worth anybody’s time clearly they aren’t worth anything at all. Nobody does a virgin.  The injustice of this statement and all of its devastating implications welled up to something close to anger inside of me – and as such things often do, I was inspired to write about it. Continue reading “Nobody does a VIRGIN”