Singleness – Red Tent Living

Embracing the Maiden

By: redtentwomen January 19, 2022December 9, 2021

Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationshipsBeing a bride, Mallory Redmond, Single Woman, Singleness, Waiting, Wednesday in the Weeds2 Comments

There was one Halloween in elementary school when I dressed up as a bride. I had a long white dress and a lace veil covering my face, though nothing about my costume could cover the beauty I felt while walking down the concrete aisle to every front door in my neighborhood, building myself a candy…

Wisdom’s Workbench

By: redtentwomen July 17, 2020July 16, 2020

Day to Day, FaithDivorce, Fear, Jill English, Loss, Singleness, Wisdom3 Comments

She was so young, so naïve. Face smooth, laugh lines just beginning to form, and eyes pooling with tears as she wondered, “what shall I do?” Her good friend, Fear convinced her that no matter what she did, she would as easily be wrong as right. It might have been a parenting decision or the…

The Cracks Are Showing

By: redtentwomen May 28, 2020May 25, 2020

Day to Day, Faith, FemininityCOVID-19, Jill English, Recovery From Divorce, Sheltering in Place, Singleness10 Comments

It was opening the gate that did it. As the vinyl slats scraped across the cement sidewalk, like fingernails on a chalkboard, I felt the layers of irritation that had piled on over the past weeks expose a crack in my intentionally cheerful veneer.

Please God.

By: redtentwomen January 17, 2020January 16, 2020

Day to Day, FemininityBecky Schulthess, Being Single, Childless, depression, Singleness7 Comments

No baby has blessed my womb Disgrace my lot, disgrace my doom Never feeling the growing inside I said I was OK with it. I lied. Never feeling touch, skin to skin No offspring from me, no next of kin Never seeing eyes open in wonder No baby, my heart asunder Never hearing cries in…

Deep Desires

By: redtentwomen January 17, 2019March 27, 2019

Day to Day, Faithcompanionship, desire, Madline Bialecki, Serenity, Serenity Prayer, Singleness, Think Big Thoughts12 Comments

A few months ago, my Pastor gave me Reinhold Niebuhr’s version of the Serenity Prayer, and I have been praying it every day since. One line that continually catches my attention is, “…taking this world as it is, not as I would have it.” Talking with a friend the other night, she was expressing her…

I Don’t Do Needy

By: redtentwomen July 20, 2018July 19, 2018

Day to Day, relationshipsAccident Trauma, Anxiety, Blessing your Body, Katy Johnson, Lay It All Down, Recovery from Accident, Singleness, Will Reagan6 Comments

I don’t do needy. Which means, I don’t do sick. I don’t do broken bones. And I don’t do hospitals. At least, I didn’t do those things until four months ago. In late March I was bustling around a friend’s kitchen, blending graham crackers and dumping crumbs; all to whip together a graham cracker crust.…

Forever unfolding.

By: redtentwomen September 22, 2017September 17, 2017

relationshipsBroken Engagements, Death, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Hope, Katy Johnson, Resurrection, Singleness, Weddings5 Comments

“I’ve decided God is about the things that come really easy or really, REALLY hard. Everything else is just me believing if I give the right amount of effort, I’ll get the result I want. Life is a lot of me pretending I have my act together.”

Make Yourself at Home

By: redtentwomen August 17, 2016August 16, 2016

The HomeAdair Swayze, Beauty, Belief, Faith, Home, Hope, horse farm, Hospitality, self-care, Singleness, Unexpected, welcome4 Comments

There is a place near my home that I am drawn to on days when I am in need of respite. It is a place that feels sacred to me, hidden as it is in a sprawling neighborhood.