A "Church" lesson

I love the series that we are doing at church right now. It's called "Live, Laugh, Love." Today the preacher talked about joy and laughter, and we laughed a lot during the service today! If you are looking for a church home in the Birmingham area, let me know because I go to a great church!

HOWEVER, the purpose of this blog is to tell you about a conversation that I heard sitting in my seat waiting on the service to start this morning. The seating at my church is stadium like. These two middle age (54 and 62 years old...how do I know you ask...stay tuned) women were sitting directly behind me. These women were talking loud enough that people several seats around would have no problem hearing...hence how I heard their ages. Apparently, both of these women have been married multiple times, and found it appropriate to discuss their sex lives, or lack there of, in church (in earshot of others mind you) this morning!

WARNING: explicit discussion ahead

These two women discussed how one of them had never had an orgasm (the 62 year old) though had been married 3 times, and the other one (54 year old) wanted to BE with Keifer Sutherland....I know she had been married twice...not sure if she was currently married. The 62 year old women told how last night she had a dream about being intimate with her neighbor...then they laughed and commented that maybe it was a vision. (OOOOKKKK!!!) The 62 year old said that all her husband ever does is pat her on the arm and say "Goodnight Honey", and then went on to comment that she would have sex if somebody would just try.......REMEMBER....all of this was a discussion going on at church!

However, the thing that struck me the most was this comment. The 54 year old commented that she didn't know if she knew what true love was. She said she had cared about her husbands (plural) but she had never had a true love, and I quote, "where you hunger for the person you are married to." The 62 year old agreed that she didn't know true love either. (Remember she had been married at least 3 times).

I find this sad. I am single as you all know. Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to be married....to MR RIGHT, the one God has planned for me....but, I would rather be single all of my life than be middle aged and feel the need to have a conversation like this. I want to know real love, and I don't want to settle just so I can say "Im married." I have heard many people say negative things just because I'm 30 and single...even my Granny called me an Old Maid for crying out loud...but I tell you...I'm happy, and I would much rather be in my position than be married in a ho-hum type of relationship...just so I could have "Married" as my status.

Please, ladies and gentleman....if you NEED to have this conversation, do it over the phone or in a private setting....not in church of all places!!