Now and Not Yet: Making Sense of Single Life in the Twenty-First Century

Has reality detoured from the plan? Is Destination Marriage nowhere on the horizon? In this time of unexpected prolonged singleness, claim God's purpose and live victoriously between now and not yet. In a culture that has grown unkind to marriage and the marriage-minded, Jennifer Marshall's analysis of the facts we live with, and the faith that sustains us, offers guidance and hope for young women. You may be single, but you do not have to be alone. Jennifer Marshall shows the way. William J. Bennett, Washington Fellow-The Claremont Institute; Host-Bill Bennett's Morning in America Jennifer Marshall rescues the dreary notion of contentment from passive resignation and recharges it with a robust faith in God that results in vigorous, purposeful living. Singles and non-singles alike will find this brand of contented living liberating, energizing, and fulfilling. Carolyn Custis James, author of When Life and Beliefs Collide and Lost Women of the Bible If we value marriage, we should value and mentor those among us who want to get there but are not there yet. In Now and Not Yet, her faith-and-research-based book, Jennifer Marshall not only brings to light this unaddressed reality of modern life, but gives her fellow single traditional women the pep talk they need. Post-twenties singleness can be a lonely time for the marriage-minded; Jennifer Marshall has made it less so. Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of the National Review Online Jennifer Marshall has a fresh, positive, God-centered perspective on singleness as one of the many callings we live by in the Christian life. Now and Not Yet is about much more than marital status; it is about loving and serving Jesus in the space between the way things are and the way we expect them to be. Marshall is honest about life's struggles and open to the legitimate desire to be married during what she calls the unexpected in-between. What she writes is full of biblical and practical wisdom for pursuing single-minded devotion to God and finding joy. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition