Yes, John and I were the most attractive couple at prom. Uninteresting Note: as a result of the paranoia caused by my last stalker, I will refer to myself as "Bonnie" as opposed to my actual name. Bonnie really is much more fitting. So, my everyday life goes a little something like this: Wake up Debate showering Come to a decision Debate brushing teeth Come to a decision Debate wearing clothes Come to a decision Go to school Hide in my locker Throw books at lunch ladies Go home Nap Go to Bed. Overall, it's quite the exhilirating lifestyle. I'd say it's safe to assume that I'm definitely the adventurous type...but it's really not. I try to live each day with the goal that, when I'm old and gray, I will be able to look back on my life and think of many valid reasons to use when trying to convince the doctor to pull the plug and end my pain and misery. But my life isn't all fun and games. Oh no, surprisingly, I do a lot of very serious things with my time, such as: Making jokes on serious topics, such as rickets. Lighting teeny bugs on fire. Mocking hypocritical church establishments. He's hot. Really. You should watch him play basketball, he's especially hot then. But don't get too excited, you can't have him. I'm probably hotter than you anyway. He's a rapper. Check out the J man's website, aight boiz and girlz? J to the Jizohn. An excerpt from Joshua Harris' "Boy Meets Girl" (2000, Multnomah Publishers) How to embrace your God-given role as a man or woman Recently I came across a book entitled The Passive Man's Guide to Seduction. I don't recommend it. The book's basic premise is that women today want to be the aggressors in relationships-- they want to make the decisions and call the shots. In effect, they want to be "the men." Thus, the most effective way for a man to seduce a woman is to sit back, be passive, and let her take charge. How romantic. This couch-potato vision of masculinity is just one example of the current confusion about the role of gender in romance and courtship. And it's not just a secular problem. Christians are mixed up too. My friend Mike was shocked when a Christian woman he was close to proposed to him. "You know I'd marry you," she told him one day. "Do you want to get married?" she asked. "Look, I'll even buy the ring if it will make it easier." Mike shook his head in disbelief as he recounted the story. "She was serious!" he said. "Woman aren't supposed to do that, are they?" The truth is that we're not sure how to behave. Men don't know what it means to be a man, so we lazily do whatever is easiest. Women don't know what it means to be a woman, so they end up acting like men. Relating to the opposite sex can be confusing when you don't know what you're the opposite of. So far we've been talking about how a man and woman can honor God as they make their way towards marriage. ... For many people, the idea that a Creator assigns roles is offensive. They don't want any person, any religion, or any God telling them how to express their manhood or womanhood. They reject the idea of God-given roles and do whatever they can to blur gender distinctions. The state of human sexuality today is like a play in which the cast is in rebellion against the playwright and his story. Imagine the chaos. The actors hate him. They reject their roles and mock the script. To show their contempt, some refuse even to read their lines. Other actors switch their roles nad costumes to confuse the plot. Still others read their parts out of place, slut their lines, and lace them with obscenities. This is a picture of the wicked and perverse generation in which Christians are called to shine like stars. It's the generation of the "transgendered," in which men at like women and woman act like men. And it's amidst this chaos that God wants his children to be faithful to the roles He has assigned us, even though the majority of humanity has abandoned them. I find this rediculous. God did not create all woman as subservient beings. God did not create all men as the leader type. |
