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“Considering the original design of Creation, it is no surprise that God used a man and a woman walking in oneness with Him and one another, to bring His plan of redemption into the world” -Danny Silk.
I don’t even really know who Danny Silk is, but I do like some of his quotes, and this one is right down my alley. The need for healthy relationships between men and women is a concept that has been pressed upon me for a number of years, an idea that has huge spiritual implications, with multiple profound layers.
Just in superficial terms, our continuation as a species kind of depends on it. In terms of emotional healing, men and women exist in direct symbiosis with each other. One simply cannot love themselves, if they are busy hating on the other half of the human race.
Honor your mother and father takes on profound implications when you recognize that to do so will require you to learn to empathize with the other gender, flaws and all, and to embrace them as a part of yourself.
One thing I love about scripture is the resolution, the reconciliation, the chance to get it right, that you will find all through out the bible. They remind me of concentric circles. Themes repeat themselves, but resolve each time. Adam and Eve fell in the garden, but men and women come together again to bring a Savior into the world. Where Adam may have tried to say “this woman you gave me,” in Genesis, Joseph is now given the opportunity to father a child he did not create. He is really called to step up to the plate there and he does it beautifully. A man and a woman walking in oneness with Him… and one another, helped to bring our Savior in to the world.
Eve has eaten the fruit and caused the fall, but Mary is chosen to give birth to Redemption. If Adam ever dropped the ball in the garden, Joseph now rises to the occasion. God not only has a plan, He has a plan in perfect measure, each note so harmonious and melodic it really is like music.
SSM is really only one issue that concerns me, for years I’ve been talking about feminism, no fault divorce, men’s rights, healing and reconciliation, healthy relationships, the nature of family, love and romance, children. Issues around abuse of state power, the destruction of natural law, the dishonoring of the sanctity of biology and the traditions we have built around it. There is another story full of concentric circles that has been unfolding too, in a completely different way.
That story that began in that garden long ago, things get a bit bumpy for a while in the book, rather terrifying actually, but it all ends with a wedding, and through out the whole process we are called to rejoice, to take heart.
All though time, what has often proven to make those bumpy rides a little less bumpy has been people walking in oneness with Him and one another.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
It is intricately interwoven isn’t it IB? Across applications, across time, across perspectives. It truly is amazing. The way it is all constructed, I cannot imagine that it was built any way but, in part, from the end backwards. That in and of itself holds some staggering implications.
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Oh by the way there is a blogger named Idiotwriter (Belinda) who gives a great deal of thought to these topics (it helps to inspire her art) and she calls it “spirals” – a sort of 3-D version of concentric circles that has the additional bonus of not only lifting the POV higher with progression, but connects all points on all circles. It also, like calculus, always has at least two answers – one spiraling up and one spiraling down.
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LOL! Well, if time is not linear, then the story could well have been written backwards, “backwards” of course only being our subjective experience of time in this dimension. God is the alpha and omega, so He knows how the story finishes…and begins. We are the ones that are confused about it all.
I’ve read Idiotwriter, yes, she’s great fun. Spirals, now there’s another fascinating idea 😉
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You’ve managed people before IB. Have you not given a task or order and KNEW it would not be completed to satisfaction and KNEW that the next step would have to be taken but also KNEW that you could only get buy on if the attitude had been adjusted by the failure so that the next step works? A small example but quite possibly the big picture with God and us. I had a protege when i was transport manager who, in all kindness, deemed every employee as capable. Now you and i both know that everyone is different – different strengths. We had a senior driver who was on vacation. He had a weekly run that was hell on wheels – but he had designed and grown with it over the years and it was super efficient. When vacation time came my protege assigned a senior spare and, in reviewing the schedule I objected. There was no way that driver could keep that schedule and I brought it to his attention. He disagreed, so I told him to have it his way, but he would have to clean up the mess and do the apologies and learn from the mistake. He was adamant the spare he assigned could handle it. It was a colossal failure – even worse than I had figured. No less than seven managers had to be stroked and offered apologies. My protege started making smarter assignment and scheduling choices after that. He was appropriately humbled.
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That’s a good point, Paul. Often we really do have to learn the hard way, but we also get to be part of the solution, too.
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Indeed – super wicked problems, both the beginning and the end must be known before a pathway can be found between the two, and both the problem and the solution involves the framer of the problem.
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