22 December 2005

Equal in the Garden of Eden

I'm still considering various aspects of being single, as it's a subject close to my heart at the moment. The whole area of attraction is very interesting. On a recent relationship course, there was a repetition of a theme - how confusing we find the opposite sex. I was pondering this and came to the conclusion that I don't find men confusing at all. I can understand perfectly where they are coming from, even if their position is contrary to mine. However as soon as I want to be romantically involved with one, they might as well be speaking Japanese as I can't fathom where they are coming from at all! It's a funny thing this men are from Mars etc, we weren't created as different species, it's not as if men are Baboons and women are Giraffes is it? God made us to complement each other, we have the same emotions, we just process them differently. Imagine how it would be if the church led the way on true equality between the sexes - our strengths equally recognized and our weaknesses equally compensated for. Imagine what would happen if men were affirmed as men and women were valued as a whole package and not just as sexual objects. Amongst my group of friends we've been thinking about what it means to live in community and obviously that mostly relates to how we interact with people that we don't have a natural affinity with but what if we added a further dimension to that and looked at the relationships between the sexes - we could start a revolution!

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