I believe singleness is not a waiting room, but a glimpse of what is to come.

Dani Treweek challenges the all-too-common view of singleness as a painful pause before the “real” life of marriage begins. Instead, she invites Christian women to see singleness not as a waiting room to escape, but as a meaningful, God-honouring season that reflects eternal realities.

There can be something uniquely harrowing about sitting endlessly in a doctor’s waiting room, shifting in a chair seemingly designed for maximum discomfort,  bored stiff by the inane gameshow on the muted TV, listening as name after name gets called, and wondering when it is finally going to be your turn. The wait feels interminable.

For many Christian women, singleness can feel the same: stuck in a bland, boring and banal waiting room, surrounded by others who, like you, are all longing for the moment when it is finally their turn to walk through those doors into the life they’ve been told will bring ultimate fulfilment and meaning: marriage.