Tuesday, October 24, 2006 

Connection Church SLO

DNA-There is so much talk of dna over the last few years, CSI everywhere is taking over television, I mean CSI Oceano is a bit much don't ya think! Anyways on to the point, i just watched a movie with my daughter on a daddy daughter date. We saw the movie "flicka" and it's about a teenage girls struggle with her father, who are exactly alike. The horse is just the means by which the conflict is played out. Good movie, even better message, but a rental not a full price movie.

I have been re-reading (audiobook) Wild at Heart, a book about guys being guys. My wife has recently read and taught at a womans retreat from the book Captivating. a book about women being women.

Here's the point about DNA. We are made a certain way, as a man I am made for the adventure of life. I love good old western movies with days on the trail and the good guys and bad guys and the cows and the horses and the snakes and bears and coyotte's, buffalo, campfires and beans, you get the point. That appeals to me, why? Because when I was a kid the coolest game to play was cowboys and indians.Why, not because it put people in a good and bad catagory but because it was wild and dirty and an adventure.

Our DNA comes from God ultimately and I wondered about God and if he likes the adventure, and then it hits me the book calls it Free Will. Gods ultimate adventure, free will! We get to chose how we allow God to be God or if we even do! And here's the cool thiing God like's to show up and save the day! Crossing the Red Sea, or the fiery furnace or the calming of the sea's ring any bells. God like's to show up and save the day!

As I am preparing for my first 3 day hike since I was in my early, early twenties I am realizing the wildness of this creation, even when I hike Bishops and look out into the vastness of my own surroundings I see the wild and the adventure and something tempts me to quit my job and go and build a log cabin somewhere.

I know that this is primarily about a mans perspective but the point is this: What is in our DNA is supposed to be there and we try too hard to make a man more sensitive and woman less sensitive. But this is what we are supposed to be, Song of Solomon likens a man to all things rough and rugged, a young stag a tree, and a woman to all things elegant and fragile, words like honey and pomegranites and fawn.

I know you are saying this is 2006 man, men are supposed to be more sensitive and women are just as strong and powerful as men. Are we? I am not saying that women stay at home and cook and clean and have kids and that's it! I am also not saying that men must work and then come home and do nothing to around the house.

What I am saying is this: Women are still looking for prince charming who will sweep her off of her feet and be able to romance her and still fight the bears and lions when necessary, and Men are looking to fight the bears and lions and still sweep a woman off her feet.

I know that ther is alot unsaid, but I fear that the length of this discussion could deter people from reading so here is the question:

What is the thing that makes you most feel like a man or a woman?

Connection Church SLO

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