Habitating in that hospital waiting room? It is a discomfort everyone feels. The magazines are used up, the chairsare rigid, and the undercurrent of anxiety is almost overwhelming. It’s like being stuck in a waiting room; this iswhere life is truly halted; you’re not there to work on anything, to construct, or to grow. You only want to hear yourname called for the last time so you can leave. Unfortunately, this is precisely how the contemporary church hasunintentionally conditioned single adults to feel about their relationship status. We experience singleness assomething like a “holding pattern,” waiting until you have to wait until “real life” arrives at the marriage altar. But thebiblical story tells a very different story. Singleness is not a deficit that must be tamed; it is a sacred vocation to benurtured.