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secretariatess · 1 year ago

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I don’t think Christians should be teaching gender roles of the home to be God-ordained.

Now let make me this clear- I am not saying Christians shouldn’t teach the nuclear family. The nuclear family is good and important.

I am speaking to the idea of the man provides, and the woman homemakes.

I know I’ve spoken about it before, but in this case, Christians teaching that this is God-ordained may find themselves preventing Christians from actually following what God wants them to do. By teaching this, we say that we already know what God’s plan is for everyone’s life, so we go about searching for a spouse so we can follow God’s plan of providing for a family (for men) or making the home (for women).

And while God certainly calls people to those positions, I’ve often seen and heard Him do more than that. He’s called people to uncomfortable positions, or positions that challenge them. Gender roles of the family are no exception.

If the church teaches men that their purpose in a family is to be the provider, what then is a man to do when he feels God calling him to a position where he’s not the breadwinner? What if God calls him to a position where he and his family have to rely on God providing for them, and not the man? Does the man ignore this calling, because he has to be conscious of the mouths to feed? Do we set him up for struggle of self worth, because he’s not doing as he was taught, which was to provide his family instead of putting God first? Or do we teach him that God might not call him to be the provider, the breadwinner? That his first and foremost duty is to God and follow what God calls him to do, even if it means going against the norm?

For the women, if the church teaches them that their purpose is to be the homemaker, what then is a woman to do when she feels God calling her to a position that would earn her more than her husband? Takes her out of the home, and possibly put her and her husband in a situation where he’s spending more time at home? Can she trust that God has intended her for a purpose that’s more than being a mother to her kids? Does the woman ignore this calling, knowing that her first and foremost goal is to take care of her children, and put aside working outside of the home? Do we set her up for struggle, splitting her between wanting to follow the call and wanting to be the dutiful, good, God-fearing wife? Or do we teach her that God might call her to places that are not just her home, and instead put her in the workforce? That her first and foremost duty is to God and follow what God calls her to do, even if it means going against the norm?

It’s not that being parents is unimportant -it is, and God -GOD- knows being a parent is important. He wouldn’t have you abandon your kids. But He may not have you work your family in the traditional sense. By claiming traditional gender roles as the “God-ordained” model of family dynamics, we as the church can end up putting an obstacle to couples where there didn’t need to be an obstacle.

Now we can certainly use anything to prevent us from following God’s calling for our lives, but I question the wisdom of the church to preaching this message, when the message first is to go to the ends of the earth to be His witnesses. He created us as individuals with our own strengths, which He can use to further His purpose if we are obedient. God can and does use housewives to further His will. But He didn’t create every woman -nor even every mother- to be a housewife. God can and does use providing men to further His will. But He didn’t create every man to be provider/breadwinner of his family.

Are we encouraging families -husbands and wives- to first be obedient to God? Or are we teaching husbands and wives that following gender roles is obedience to God?

If we teach the first, we should trust that God has the best interests of the family at heart, even when the calling gets tough, difficult, and challenging.

If we teach the second, we can end up setting up Christians to dismiss the calling of God.

#christianity #and I didn't put this in there earlier #but God doesn't always have a one and done call #He may call a wife to be the career parent while the husband works with the kids #but later down the road call them to switch places #or have both work #we may not always understand why #we may not want to do the thing He calls us to do #but will we be obedient anyways?

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justvea18 · 1 month ago

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Was doing homework but then my playlist played something that made me feel emotional to the point I need to draw something

#I WS SUPPOSED TO POST THIS EARLIER BUT I REALIZED I DIDN'T PRESS POST LMAO #Patrochilles #achilles #patroclus #just putting the tags for easier search atp #my art

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killjoy-prince · 8 months ago

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House M.D. but it's when Wilson says House's name

#house md #james wilson #prince's talk tag #finally!!! it's done! this and the house version took almost two weeks to do #first off thank you to the clinic-duty team on livejournal for making the transcripts for these episodes #because this video would be near impossible to make without their clear transcripts. I hope y'all are doing well #ive been reading a lot of fics with these two and i see how the authors have the characters refer to each other in their fics #and that got me wondering how much do they say each other's name in the show and how do they refer to each other #since this is the wilson video ill put his stats here #s1 was 11 times s2 was 18 s3 was 45 s4 was 32 s5 was 41 s6 was 60 s7 was 47 and s8 was 48 #in total he says his name 302 times. Mostly refers to him just by House #the only time I've heard him say his first name its when he's being professional or when he's really angry (and that one time he proposed)#and even then it's always the full name not just the first name #the only instance I've seen him use just his first name was on that note he put on House's xmas gift that we see in season 5 #and as much as I wanted to put that moment in here he never actually says the contents of the note out loud so i had to leave it out #but what surprised me was he says House's name more than House says his name #especially when the earlier seasons didn't have him say his name as much

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utilitycaster · 12 days ago

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I think the two most obvious foils for Ludinus Da'leth across all of Critical Role are Essek and Keyleth, which is both fascinating given how different those two characters are from each other (Essek being a foil in terms of isolation, single-mindedness, harm in the name of ambition, knowledge, and other such wizard themes; Keyleth being a foil in terms of people who have lost something at a young age to the gods and bear resentment for it, political leadership, belief that the world belongs to mortalkind, and longevity) but also it's extremely funny that they both are the partners of Liam's character.

#i could write like a longer piece about it but that kind of sums it up #like. hm. how do i put it.#the thing about essek is like. he like ludinus made some IMMENSELY selfish and harmful choices #but the timeline was SHORT all things considered. ludinus didn't REALLY get going until hundreds of years post-calamity #and he expresses NO regret whereas the vibe with essek in 2x97 is that he's kind of hated himself ever since #and you know. maybe if someone had intervened with ludinus 400 years earlier he'd have done the same. but who would. does he have friends.#the thing about essek haters who aren't just angry shippers is that they all ascribe to ontological evil and yet don't ascribe it to ludinu #meanwhile keyleth is just like...the scope of her pain is somehow both smaller and larger #and yet she's able to see herself as part of a whole and not the center of the world #the fact that power and long life was much more naturally given or earned by her rather than seized is also i think part of it #but keyleth's speech this past episode in particular...it's a direct rebuttal of ludinus's dumb speech in 51 #this can be your world without having to kill anyone if you're willing to work and grow and compromise and grieve #cr spoilers #critical role #ludinus da'leth #essek thelyss #keyleth

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ohitslen · 4 months ago

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Living together.

The snail video if you are interested :)

#showing random videos you found abt an animal fun fact is a love language if you didn't know btw #not understanding a topic and starting with drop out ideation is part of the journey when you are a student.#it evolves later (or simultaneously) with wanting to quit your job. in WW case both apply at the same time #vash is the kind of guy to really be marveled abt every little new piece of information he gets in his hands #and the 1st person he thinks abt to share his knowledge and joy with is ofc ww #the fact that they live together only amplified this by a thousand #ww tends to hear him out and also watch more videos with him. rn he's too busy weighing studying vs quitting #I really enjoyed drawing Vash in the bg for this one he's so cute #i hope its noticeable how much fun i am having by putting them through all of this.#why didn't i do this more since earlier???#aesthetics be damned. put them THROUGH -IT-#trigun #vash the stampede #trigun stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #vashwood #trigun fanart #vash #wolfwood #nicholas trigun #lenssi draws #Trigun Uni! AU #made some very light changes that were bothering only me specifically. you might not notice IWDFJK

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clownowo · 2 months ago

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i think people don't think hard enough about the state of the ace attorney family tree

bonus worse version with fanon in it and looser definitions of "dubiously canon" because i think its fun:

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j0ly0n · 1 year ago

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#fight club #soapshipping #love the tumblr fight club echo chamber #genuinely don't know why i didn't look up fight club on here earlier #like I've been here for 1 million years and I've been annoying about fight club for 1 million years #not very good at putting 2 and 2 together am i

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22ratonthestreet · 11 months ago

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👍 well

#WELL #more where this came from awhatever #starting nightwatch today i m going to be real good about it #putting my gorse blinders back on to enjoy it as a mediadetached from yaoi #vetvimes #22ratonthestreet #samuel vimes #havelock vetinari #night watch #discworld #if u saw this get posted earlier no u didn't #i fucked the tags real hard on the last try #shout out to robo reos who is the devil that moves my hand #FUCK HAS IT BEEN 'ROB OREOS' ALL THIS TME #LIKE THE TWO WORDS.#im .

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ineed-to-sleep · 4 months ago

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*me immediately after going through a terrifying and traumatic experience* haha yeah I guess it was rough but I'm fine now like I'm totally chill. It was kinda funny actually if you think about it

#GUESS WHO GOT A PIERCING INFECTION SO BAD OVERNIGHT SHE HAD TO RUSH TO THE HOSPITAL #AND GET SURGERY TO REMOVE IT BC THE METAL WAS BURROWING ITSELF INSIDE HER LIP #yep that was meee :3 #man. it sounds so silly now. like that probably shouldn't have made me panic nearly as much as it did #but you have to understand at the time it was terrifying #I noticed my lip was a bit swollen earlier in the night but I was like ok it's probably nothing serious #I put some ice on it hoping it would be back to normal after I got some sleep #then I woke up at like 5:30 AM with my lip super swollen and my lip piercing literally burying itself inside my flesh #I tried pushing it back out a bit and blood and pus started coming out so yk I started panicking #so I went upstairs and I asked my mom to drive me to the hospital #luckily we have free healthcare in brazil and the hospital was basically empty(this was on sunday)#but when I got there they told me the doctor wouldn't arrive until 8AM and it was like 6:45 at that point #so I REALLY started panicking 🫠 bc I could feel like the piercing kept burying itself more deeply like #I felt like the skin inside my lip was going to close around it and I was terrified bc I had no idea what to do #and I was scared it might make things worse #but all I could do was sit there and wait and so I started having a panic attack #luckily my mom was there with me the whole time so at least I didn't feel alone #and then I just. waited for it to end. and then tried to keep myself distracted until the doctor got there #I got treated by military doctors! sjdjcjck the army has been giving additional support for hospitals in my city #bc of the floods some health units are currently closed and demand got higher so they needed extra support there #so an army doctor performed my surgery(inside an army tent no less ajfjjfkf maybe not ideal but. functional)#he was so nice?? like probably the calmest most careful doctor I've ever been treated by #I still had a bit of a nervous breakdown again after the surgery but that was bc I'd never been through something like that before #I got anesthesia obvs but I still felt the tug when he cut into my skin to remove the piercing and did my stitches #so my mind started cooking up all these horrible scenarios of how everything could go wrong and I was gonna die #cried on the doctor's table. 👍🏻 awesome #but he and his assistant were super nice about it she even offered me a hug #but anyway in the end I finally calmed down and got some medication #now I'm all stitched up with my little bloated lip eating soup out of a straw 👍🏻 but I'm ALIVE and I'm just glad it's all over fjjvjkf #sleep.txt

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grogumaximus · 2 months ago

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#This!!! i was panicking in q2 bc he went earlier that the rest n he had to lock in n not make any mistakes bc he couldve gotten knocked out #n he did the same again in q3 after his first lap got unfairly deleted but he was again on it no mistakes n put that trashcan on p2 #others choked when it mattered but he didn't #the moment the car starts acting normal hes Him #gonna post another praise kink etc post bc yall shd appreciate his quali laps from yesterday more #max verstappen

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arttsuka · 5 months ago

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I wonder if Jedediah and octavius ever celebrated the 4th of July together? (also your leftover veggie dish looks like it would make Gordon Ramsay cry with joy :) )

They probably, most definitely did celebrate together I think

Featuring my failed attempt at drawing fireworks 🎆

If Gordon Ramsey were to see that dish he'd cry in general I think, given the fact that I forgot to put enough salt :')

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muirmarie · 4 months ago

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Me: I joke about writing the same McCoy centric story over and over again in different ways

Me: and like. I love doing it and imma keep doing it because it makes me happy.

Me: but also. I do sometimes wonder if it's like. A little Much.

Me: like maybe I should branch out or something

Me: [reads another fundamental and extremely insulting misread of McCoy's character by someone who is clearly making a Choice to cast McCoy as the villain, because they have to get him out of the way of spirk, because they're too???? idk immature??? to realize that even when you're in a relationship with one person, other ppl can and SHOULD still be important to you]

Me: lmao I hope I AM too much actually!!!! I hope it is 100% obnoxious how much I love that doctor!!!!! Time to write more versions of the same story of McCoy being forced to realize that he is loved and cared for!!!!!!

Me: I KNOW MY NICHE AND IMMA DIE IN THAT NICHE, THANKS