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It’s Not You, It’s God Nine Lessons for Breakups Eneas Article by Marshall Segal Staff writer, desiringGod.org Some of a single person’s darkest days fall after a breakup. You risked your heart. You shared your life. You bought the gifts, made the memories, and dreamed your dreams together — and it fell apart. Now, you’re back at square one in the quest for marriage, and it feels lonelier than square one, and further from the altar, because of all you’ve spent and lost. No one begins dating someone hoping to break it off someday. The wiring in most of us has us longing for the wedding day. We’re looking, sometimes it feels frantically, for love, for affection and security and companionship and commitment and intimacy and help. After all, God seems to want most of us to be married ( Genesis 2:18 ; Proverbs 18:22 ; 1 Corinthians 7:2 , 9 ). But that sure hasn’t made getting married easy. The Pain of Intimacy Without Matrimony The reality is that good, Chr...

So it came about a few months ago, when in the midst of clocking major overtime on work, I realised how much I missed doing research on topics of personal interests. Then the thought of perhaps working on such issues on a more consistent basis sparked the wild idea of me doing my PhD. Even though I love my job and I consider myself to be extremely privilege to have a large part of my hobby being my job (flight control), I craved for more. Most working people out there will call be spoiled or even ungrateful for what I've achieved, but honestly cannot picture a life where I've just settled technically. So here we are, I've officially sent my application to Wits university (I hope I'll find still standing) for the year 2017. I've also given myself five years of part-time study but the most exciting thing is that I now have a real challenge on my plate. How do I make all this work? Let the games begin...