Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2007
I am woman...
I am rereading my classnotes for the Marriage & Family final tomorrow, and something stuck out that didn't the first time I heard it. Dan is talking about the gender differences, and how men are more black & white, "this is right, this is wrong". He also talked about how the teaching of the church has been male-oriented; I realized I have been taught that "right and wrong" thinking my entire Christian life. The thing is, I could always see both sides of an issue or a person's story--I just figured I had weak character, that I was rationalizing ("telling rational lies"). Dan says women are much more inclusive in their thinking, tend toward mystery instead of definitive truth--all along, my "problem" has been I am a woman! (sorry about the changing tenses here--maybe that fits in somehow to my womanliness).
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i don't get it..
this was a while ago--what part don't you get?
Turns out my problem is I think like a woman too. Which is more a problem for me than for you ;) Did I ever send you that thing I wrote about growing comfortable with uncertainty? Same issue. I'm really sick of playing devil's advocate all the time. I do it without even realizing I do it. Defending Bush to my freaked out liberal friends who think he's the antichrist and criticizing him to my conservative family who think he's the Pope. If I could just stop saying "maybe..." I'd probably have a lot more friends.
is still that hideous icon.I worry about my wishy-washiness as a counselor (and a friend); I know there are times when I need to narrow my focus and say the thing that needs to be said, and not "see both sides" when one of them is not true.
Okay--thinking about the difference between being wishy-washy (which I don't think you are, and maybe I'm not either), and not feeling comfortable with absolutes. Part of me, the fundy part, wonders how one can be a Christian and not believe in black & white truth; the Mars Hill part says a nuanced truth is still true, and that we will never know the complete truth here anyway. I would love to read what you wrote about this.That said, I think I do sometimes lack the wisdom to see an issue clearly, and/or the courage to face what I know is true...I think this is a different issue, though.
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