Sunday, October 29, 2006
Car and swimming
Jo was up around 0530 - felt like 0630 to her, of course, as the clocks went back last night. Moo _very_ kindly took Jo downstairs and I got another 2 hours of sleep. My wife is an angel in human form (only sometimes, of course!). We got up, and then went to West's Renault in Cambridge to change Moo's car. It's got over 73,000 miles on the clock (see, another clock reference), she does lots of mileage on it, and it's depreciating soon. We need something newer that's not going to cost us more in servicing than it's worth, so we've bitten the bullet. And avoided divorce. Again.Took Jo swimming in the afternoon, while Moo had a well-earned sleep. Chicken (organic, free-range, very happy indeed until someone slaughtered it and pull its guts out, that sort of thing) for supper, all of us round the table at the same time, which is a real treat.
Oh, following a link on Sally's blog, I posted a comment about singles, sexuality and Christianity in response to a request for same on John Smulo's blog. Might generate some traffic...
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Mike if I didn't know you I'd think you were out to provoke people, but as I do know that the issues you are commenting on via John's blog are important to you I will take the risk and comment.
First I think you have hit the nail on the head on a number of issuses.
First the need for recognition of longterm committed relationships be they recognised by the state or simply the individuals concerned. Committed love is Godly and a reflection of Gods covenant relationship to us. If we celebrate people in their committment to one another and seek to be affirming of that we open a door to a relationship with God that might otherwise remain shut! Tim and I had that door opened for us by the Vicar who married us - he was affirming of our decision to make a committment before God even though we had been living togehter and had a child already.Funny if that door had remained closed I wonder what I would be doing now; not training for Methodist Ministry for sure...
As far as recognising homosexual "marriage" goes- yes it is time to bite the bullet and say yes let us celebrate this committment and allow it to be brought into the light before God- we spend far too much time writing rules for God, and need to recognise cultural differenceds between the culture Paul was writing into and our own (Contextualisation is necessary).
I agree with you that marriage is a sacrament- one to be taken seriously and worked at ( even if that means a new car!)...but the problem is often that we reduce marriage to sex;
you say
"Making sex the "big question" isn't always healthy. I think we have other things to worry about."
This is a key issue for both married people and singles- so much of our thinking regarding relationships is centered on sex - go look at womens magazines ( and mens now come to think of it)... you'd think there was nothing else within a relationship to worry about!
But if that is the case does that mean that love is the big question- and if so we come full circle to your original comment on Johns blog... and the only conclusion can be to say...
"I'm not sure"
First I think you have hit the nail on the head on a number of issuses.
First the need for recognition of longterm committed relationships be they recognised by the state or simply the individuals concerned. Committed love is Godly and a reflection of Gods covenant relationship to us. If we celebrate people in their committment to one another and seek to be affirming of that we open a door to a relationship with God that might otherwise remain shut! Tim and I had that door opened for us by the Vicar who married us - he was affirming of our decision to make a committment before God even though we had been living togehter and had a child already.Funny if that door had remained closed I wonder what I would be doing now; not training for Methodist Ministry for sure...
As far as recognising homosexual "marriage" goes- yes it is time to bite the bullet and say yes let us celebrate this committment and allow it to be brought into the light before God- we spend far too much time writing rules for God, and need to recognise cultural differenceds between the culture Paul was writing into and our own (Contextualisation is necessary).
I agree with you that marriage is a sacrament- one to be taken seriously and worked at ( even if that means a new car!)...but the problem is often that we reduce marriage to sex;
you say
"Making sex the "big question" isn't always healthy. I think we have other things to worry about."
This is a key issue for both married people and singles- so much of our thinking regarding relationships is centered on sex - go look at womens magazines ( and mens now come to think of it)... you'd think there was nothing else within a relationship to worry about!
But if that is the case does that mean that love is the big question- and if so we come full circle to your original comment on Johns blog... and the only conclusion can be to say...
"I'm not sure"
an added thought and echoing John- Love has limits- it needs limits and boundaries- and if we truly are aiming to reflect that love we must decide where they are and respect them!
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