Laetitia.GloryRealm

  I am inviting you to walk with me a few minutes.   Investigate something with me. Since being engaged after being single “again” for 16 years, I receive numerous phone calls and questions from single people asking me for advice. The purpose of this devotion is to inspire you as a single person. I want to start by saying: “Singleness is NOT a curse”. Being married is a calling. Being single is also a calling. And if you don’t treat it as such, you will never find happiness. You have to know who you are before you can truly get to know someone else. I never dated after getting divorced while my sons were still in my house, under my care.   I did not even go on a coffee date.   Not a single one. I treated “single parenthood” as a ministry, a calling and when people asked, I simply made a joke, saying: “Where on earth will I fit dating into my busy schedule”. And honestly?   I have no regrets.   I look at my grown-up sons and I am grateful...

  I am inviting you to walk with me a few minutes. After my husband left in 2006, I suddenly became a single mom for ten- and eight-year-old boys. After the divorce, I could not afford the maintenance on the house we were staying in anymore, so we had to sell the house and moved into a much smaller house. There were a lot of people helping that day.   Some were hanging curtains, packing out.   Some brought food, lots of food.   I will be forever grateful for the amazing support system God blessed me with. The first night, after everyone who helped went back to their own homes, my sons were busy unpacking their toys in their rooms when I prayed a silent prayer.   I was resting my forehead on my arms on top of the TV cabinet when I said: “Lord, how on earth am I going to raise two boys alone?   I need a hug tonight”. I stepped three steps back and fell on the couch.   The next moment I felt the arms of my eight-year-old, hugging me around my ...

  I recently relocated to Klerksdorp from Mossel Bay and what saddens me, is how negative people respond upon hearing that I moved here from Mossel Bay. I often get responses like: “What on earth are you doing in this terrible place?” “Why not rather go back to Mossel Bay?” Or “What’s wrong with you?” What astonishes me is that these responses are coming from locals. Some even call me crazy. To those I want to say: As a son of God, external matters are never a requirement for inner happiness. As a son of God, I do not allow the atmosphere to change me, but I change the atmosphere. As a son of God, I can also testify like Paul in Galatians 2:20 in the Passion Translation: “My old identity has been co-crucified with Messiah and no longer lives; for the nails of his cross crucified me with him. And now the essence of this new is no longer mine, for the Anointed One lives his life through me – we live in union as one! My new life is empowered by the faith of the S...