Children are weird, right?
Last week my sister Kristi ran across this article that discusses single life vs the need to be married. It's an interesting read and much food for thought. So if you're interested, take a look:
http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001135.cfm
There is also an article from Boundless that defends the original article here:
http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001145.cfm
I won't go into the details or my thoughts on the articles themselves, but I think it's well worth reading as food for thought. I did, however, want to point out one quote that stuck out at me as a D.I.N.K. (Dual Income No Kids). My wife and I babysit our nephew Noah, which is a complete joy for us, but I must admit that we are still baffled by children at times. We've come a long way and are wanting to start a family of our own in the next few years... but still. They are such odd creatures :). Back to the article since I know I am beginning to ramble... The author is talking about how a single friend of hers deals with children when she comes to her house to hang out.
"When visiting friends who have small children, she might smile at them or politely bat them away or ask questions about them as if they’re a species of plant and she’s not someone particularly interested in botany."
Ha!! I remember feeling the same way when I used to see babies! Hopefully I've gotten better now that I have a nephew. I've stopped asking my species of plant questions like:
1. What is THAT coming out of their nose??"
2. So how fast do they grow?
3. Can it do any tricks?
4. Is it supposed to be that color all of the time or does that change too?
5. Do they really sleep all day and only bloom for 15 minutes at a time?
Ahh, maybe someday I'll have my own little plants to raise.
posted by Chad B at 4:22 PM
3 Comments:
Remind me to have a conversation about this. The two articles are definitely challenging and I would like to explore what others and I think about them more - I don't want to rest with my gut feeling of being offended at some of what the articles said and not take the time to really think them through. Mostly I am intrigued by the assertion that we are either called to celibacy or marriage...I'd never thought about it that way before, or the implications. Hm.
9:31 AM
Interesting reading to be sure. I mean, it beats talking to truckers, right? Actually, I find it intriguing when Christianity and culture blur the lines, so to speak, on topics that fall in the ol' gray areas of life. By gray areas, I refer to topics and practices that are assumed by society, but not heavily emphasized in Scripture. For example, having children. The Bible discusses child-rearing, etc, quite often, but only once, to my knowledge, does it discuss the choice to do so. It almost seems assumed.
Likewise, the assertion that we are called either to marriage or celibacy is odd to me because, frankly, those are the only two valid options seeing as one cannot go about willy nilly sowing one's oats and spreading VD and still claim to be Christ-like (that is unless I missed that part of the Song of Solomon *grin*). It kind of has to be an either-or situation, but that's a blog-rant for another day. See you later Snickerpie!
12:20 PM
I totally agree your royal Chappiness. I was also thinking about how it's interesting that they spend time talking about the options as if there is an option that we are missing other than celibacy or being married. This, of course, is based on the assumption that we are talking about Christians to which the Bible says not to be sexually impure. So then you're either having sex in marriage (hopefully you are if you're married!), or you living a life of celibacy.
3:27 PM
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