{"id":166,"date":"2007-06-27T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/wollopress\/?p=166"},"modified":"2007-06-27T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T08:20:00","slug":"life-on-the-departure-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"life on the departure platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> &#8218;Life on the departure platform?<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>It always hits me when people focus their lives on finding a husband\/wife in order to reach happiness.<br \/>Isn\u2019t is just too bad when life\u2019s all about living on a departure platform\u2026 you wait and wait and wait for life to begin \u2013 exactly then and only once you got married.<br \/>And what if I don\u2019t get married?<br \/>Does God really want to deprive me of what I need for my happiness, for a fulfilled life?<br \/>Do I spoil my happiness by me wanting things to be different?\u2019<br \/>Astrid Eichler<br \/>This is something I\u2019ve read this morning\u2026 well just \u00bd hour ago!<br \/>Right now I\u2019m at work and I\u2019m actually supposed to do some \u2018real\u2019 work \u2013 but hey, I need to get this out of the system!<br \/>Man\u2026 these words are so flipping challenging!<br \/>I must admit that I\u2019m right there on the departure platform.<br \/>Have I wasted far too many years waiting for Prince Charming to appear and pull me on his horse so we\u2019d be happy for ever and ever? Do I have to check every single guy for his Prince Charming potential?<br \/>Why can\u2019t (or why doesn\u2019t) God just take this longing out of my single person heart and mind?<br \/>I wanna live a life which glorifies God!<br \/>But it seems that the older I get the more I run in circles \u2013 and I really don\u2019t want this. I want to be content with whatever he has for me.<br \/>If that\u2019s singlehood \u2013 it\u2019s singlehood (ok Lord, PLEASE not!!!).<br \/>If it\u2019s being married \u2013 it\u2019s being a wife and possibly a mother!<br \/>But hey, I wanna know NOW!<br \/>I don\u2019t want to stand at this stupid platform any longer waiting for a train which might never come.<br \/>I can\u2019t stand listing to love songs any longer, don\u2019t wanna watch \u2018While you were sleeping\u2019 again\u2026 (Even while writing this I KNOW that I\u2019ll listen to those songs again and I certainly will watch \u2018While you were sleeping\u2019 along with \u2018Ever after\u2019 and\u2026.)<br \/>Thinking about it and ignoring those nagging thoughts \u2013 maybe this is just the battle \u2018we singles\u2019 or let me say I have to face.<br \/>Cause again and again I simply HAVE to bring it before God. I can\u2019t deal with this on my own. Don\u2019t even want to think of where I\u2019d be without the Lord!<br \/>For the past 7 years the lyrics of this song (actually just one line) keeps on popping up in my mind<br \/><strong>\u2018For he knows better than I! He knows the way! I\u2019ve let go the need to know why! For he knows it better than I!\u2019<\/strong><br \/>Flipping hard \u2013 but for me the only way to go!<br \/>Ok, maybe this was a bit too honest for this innocent little blog of mine! But well\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8218;Life on the departure platform?It always hits me when people focus their lives on finding a husband\/wife in order to reach happiness.Isn\u2019t is just too bad when life\u2019s all about living on a departure platform\u2026 you wait and wait and wait for life to begin \u2013 exactly then and only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schmidtswelt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}