You're OKAY

I overheard a conversation between two women at the gym this morning. They were probably late 40s early 50s. They began talking about a mutual friend of theirs and her lack of luck in the romance department. This wasn’t a gossip attack on their friend at all; their sentiments were actually very kind. They said she deserved to meet a great guy. Unfortunately, so far that guy was not one of her matches on Match.com or anyone her friends had tried to set her up with. Then one of the ladies said something that made my body cringe and my heart hurt. * “She’ll be okay once she meets the right guy.” * Thoughts rushed through my brain. Why don’t you think she’s okay now? What if she never meets someone? Because that is possible. Why does she need a guy to be okay? Also, how unfair is it to put that kind of unrealistic expectations on a guy. That he can make her “okay”. * I didn’t say any of these things. Actually I didn’t say anything. But I should have. * So, to you two women at the gym and your friend, and to anyone else who feels they need a person or thing to be “okay”: * Your happiness and your worth and your contribution to this world are not determined by your relationship status. Actually, none of these are determined by anything we bring to the table. All of these things are found in Jesus Christ. * Everything of this world will fail you at some point or another. If you put your sense of being “okay” on a person or a thing, you will be disappointed. That desire you feel can only be filled by the One who put it there. There is a God shaped hole in all our hearts and only He can fill it. * Single, dating, married, widowed: You are made in the perfect image of God, and with Him you are most definitely “okay”.