Yesterday I returned from a weeklong trip to Pennsylvania and New York. The main purpose of the trip was to be one of the photographers at my friend Josh's wedding. Along the way, I had a great time catching up with old friends from Toronto, visiting my family, and meeting a dear Flickr friend for a day.

Occasionally I touch a moment when I find what I was made for, when I know what my purpose is in existence. Those moments are almost exclusively in worship. It's a moment of complete joy, of perfect fulfillment, of gazing outside myself into something so beautiful and so wonderful that my only response can be utterly abandoned praise.

Occasionally I read Christianity Today's online articles. They have a regular column for singles which I also occasionally read.

I have to admit that I find it bothering me sometimes. This article is a case in point. Titled "What's So Great about Being Single?", it lists reasons to support the title, but still treats singleness as if it's just a temporary stage on the route to marriage, something to be tolerated if not enjoyed. Marriage and kids are the ultimate destination, but contentment must be found in singleness while it lasts. If you haven't achieved marriage, you are working toward it and have to assuage your misery until you reach that blissful state.

The other morning as I was driving to work at a temp assignment I was praying in tongues. As I was stopped at a traffic light these words came into my mind with the force and unmistakable clarity of God speaking: "For what do you worry and be anxious? The Lord God is the God Almighty, the God of the whole earth."

Those two simple sentences brought stunning calm and revelation. I am a high-stress person, though I don't show it much on the outside. It hit me how foolish and futile is worry, and how dishonouring and grieving it is to God: we live as though he does not exist. As though he is not in sovereign control of the universe and of our lives. As I thought about it I realized that we need a bigger revelation of God, because if he is who he says he is, we need never worry or be afraid.