Single Mothers and abstinence

Hello everyone!!! I decided to post today because of something the Lord gave to me. I was thinking about how once you become a single-mother how society kind of throws you into this box as if to say we are "used goods." I was having this conversation with my sister and we were talking about how single-mothers can't hide the sins of there past once they decide to come to Christ because that product of our sins is following us around everyday. I said that that has a tendency to make us want to rush the process of getting to the alter, but i'm here to tell you today that we must be strong. True enough we can not erase our beautiful blessing, but we can embrace our "thorns". The lord lead me in the bible to Corinthians Where the Apostle Paul is speaking a thorn, and how he has to live with something from his past: 2 Corinthians 12 New International Version (NIV) Paul’s Vision and His Thorn 12 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Now this is not to say that being a mother is a horrible thing, but a true single mother can attest to the fact that we have many rough days. What I feel Paul is saying in the text is that God allowed him to have this "Hardship" to keep him humble, so that he would remain in need of God. He said 3 times he pleaded to have it taken away... ladies doing it alone is double work, and we may constantly plead with God to send us a spouse or someone to help with the work. Look at what the Lord told Paul he said “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Being a single parent keeps us on our knees because it is in our weakness that he is made strong. wow! so God blessed us with the gift of needing Him, and we should be in constant prayer to stay connected to Him...That means we can walk around with our heads high knowing that God's power rests upon us. Only God can provide food, and clothing for a mother in her time of need or make end's meet when we don't even know where money will come from. Be encouraged mother's, remain obedient, and know that God's got you! be blessed till next time ttyl :)