I don't think of myself as single. Yes, that's the answer I gave for "marital status" when I responded to the last census. But in any other context, it's not the way I'd characterize myself.
Partly, that's because I feel a part of so many families—families of friends and co-workers, of neighbors, of relatives of all ages, of fellow church members, and even of Sunday School students who still look me up when they come into town.
Mostly, though, I don't think of myself as single—or, more particularly, as "unmarried"—because I know that's not the way God defines me, or made me. God sees me as an individual spiritual idea, complete, companioned, beautiful, satisfied. In fact, that's the nature of each of His children as reflection, as made in God's likeness. I love the idea that no one is single except in a true, spiritual way—in that we're all whole, intact individuals. That's the way we come.
