Phew, that's exactly my heart. I pray yall dont see my posts as a lecture at all. 'Working' is right....we work hard at praying, change of attitude, fight selfishness, and continue to struggle all like everyone else. It's called life.
I always give this analogy--I love crafty-type hobbies, but if you set written instructions in front of me (even with pictures), it's pretty meaningless to me. I need to be able to see someone demonstrate the procedures in front of me to really "get" how to do it. This is why YouTube has become my personal savior when it comes to learning how to try a new technique.
The Christian life is the same thing to me. God bless people who know every Bible verse and principle. But to me, rote memorization and too-often repeated Christian cliches given by themselves are virtually meaningless to me as well. Unless you can give me an example of how you're living it in your own life or seeing someone else live it in a way that I can relate to, I personally don't get much out of it. I've just always been that way.
My spiritual life is just like my regular everyday life. I need to see the techniques demonstrated in order to have an idea of how to live them out myself. Therefore, when others here post about what they're watching others go through or are going through themselves, it's like my spiritual "YouTube" of how to live the Christian life.
We singles love and appreciate our married friends here who take the time to "tell us how it really is" WITHOUT talking down to us or insisting we all need to get married (and then want to tell us what to do to find someone to marry.)
Praise God for all of you out there who are willing and able to SHOW us what Christian marriages are actually like in daily living instead of just talking about it.