Four budding relationships amongst my friends are in my thoughts these days.  The relationship that has existed the longest is between a professing believer and a woman of another faith.   The second longest relationship is between a girl that basically eloped at 18 and an 18-year-old guy from her church.  The third relationship is between two believers who met at church, but live 1000 miles apart and have developed their relationship online.  The final relationship is just beginning between two very young people who met at church.

My wife and I met at church and I wouldn't recommend starting a relationship as young as we did.  There are a number of things we would "do over" if we had the opportunity, but mostly we just thank God everyday for bringing us together and working out details that we were too naive to think of.

It seems like, in my circles anyway, that it is increasingly difficult for conservative believers and homeschoolers to find mates.  I'm not entirely sure why this is.  It's possible that there are just fewer of us out there, but my wife and I were mentioning the other day that we know single guys looking for the right woman and single women looking for the right guy, but none that we would think would fit each other. 

I'm hoping and praying, as I watch especially the last two of these four relationships, that we will get to see them succeed as they make an effort to do things the right way.