I'ma just sayin'....
Today I posted this on Don Miller's blog, found here.
Kay says:
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April 9, 2010 at 10:51 am
So, I’ve been thinking.
Lots of these things you’re mentioning, Don, are pretty universal. I mean, ladies want a confident man too!
I honestly have to say that I’m a little disappointed. Perhaps after 160 some comments, you will give up reading these comments, Don, but to be sure I didn’t expect this from you.
It’s not that I don’t know that men and women are different, it’s just that I think we have more in common than we say we do. Men and women do not come from different planets, they were made by one Creator.
Furthermore, I think celibacy is completely underappreciated in the real of Christianity. For 1500 years celibate men and women led the Church, and many still do. I would like to cite Father Theodore Hesburgh here and remind us all that to be devoted only to God indicates a devotion to all of mankind.
I have a boyfriend. He is great. But the truth is, he does not need me and I do not need him. There are no attributes of him that would render me incomplete without him. I have the Holy Spirit to complete me; I am not Tom Cruise.
It’s a common temptation to think that the world is divided into two distinct categories. We resort to sex a lot because anatomy is obvious. The truth is in Christ there is not slave nor free, Greek nor Jew, male nor female. Not meaning we lose sexual organs or somehow no longer engage in matrimony, it just means that those differences fade in light of the beckoning power of the call to serve the Lord.
I really admire your work, Don. A Million Miles was epically beautiful and so deep. I hope you have the chance to read this, not because I want to berate you, but because I want you to know how much you don’t need in a woman because God has every need. You might need community, to be sure, you might need men and women to show you how the Body, the Bride, is to love and look and feel, but you need no sex to make you happy.
It is no fault of yours that the church protested against Catholicism enough to disengage from the beauty of singleness. I see it everywhere on my Christian campus that promotes “rings by spring.” (It’s spring and there are lots and lots of rings flying about.) But, I say the Church as a whole must whole-heartedly accept the wonderfulness of celibacy. After all, Paul wanted us to be spared of marriage, not singleness.
We are beautiful as is because we are already the Bride, the Bride of Christ.
Kay says:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
April 9, 2010 at 10:51 am
So, I’ve been thinking.
Lots of these things you’re mentioning, Don, are pretty universal. I mean, ladies want a confident man too!
I honestly have to say that I’m a little disappointed. Perhaps after 160 some comments, you will give up reading these comments, Don, but to be sure I didn’t expect this from you.
It’s not that I don’t know that men and women are different, it’s just that I think we have more in common than we say we do. Men and women do not come from different planets, they were made by one Creator.
Furthermore, I think celibacy is completely underappreciated in the real of Christianity. For 1500 years celibate men and women led the Church, and many still do. I would like to cite Father Theodore Hesburgh here and remind us all that to be devoted only to God indicates a devotion to all of mankind.
I have a boyfriend. He is great. But the truth is, he does not need me and I do not need him. There are no attributes of him that would render me incomplete without him. I have the Holy Spirit to complete me; I am not Tom Cruise.
It’s a common temptation to think that the world is divided into two distinct categories. We resort to sex a lot because anatomy is obvious. The truth is in Christ there is not slave nor free, Greek nor Jew, male nor female. Not meaning we lose sexual organs or somehow no longer engage in matrimony, it just means that those differences fade in light of the beckoning power of the call to serve the Lord.
I really admire your work, Don. A Million Miles was epically beautiful and so deep. I hope you have the chance to read this, not because I want to berate you, but because I want you to know how much you don’t need in a woman because God has every need. You might need community, to be sure, you might need men and women to show you how the Body, the Bride, is to love and look and feel, but you need no sex to make you happy.
It is no fault of yours that the church protested against Catholicism enough to disengage from the beauty of singleness. I see it everywhere on my Christian campus that promotes “rings by spring.” (It’s spring and there are lots and lots of rings flying about.) But, I say the Church as a whole must whole-heartedly accept the wonderfulness of celibacy. After all, Paul wanted us to be spared of marriage, not singleness.
We are beautiful as is because we are already the Bride, the Bride of Christ.