Skip to main content

Divine Difference

 


  

Recognizing that this might be a very sensitive topic I just want to preface this post with a reminder that it is ok to have a different point of view. It is also not meant in any way to hurt or offend anyone. With that being said let's get into what I got to say for this week on gender roles in the family and the world. 

Man and woman are the two different genders. Each has a divine design and divine difference, just the way God intended us to be. There is an innate difference between males and females and that is okay. In fact, that is how God planned it.

In 1995 President Gordon B. Hinckley read "the FAMILY A PROCLAMATION TO THE WORLD" this clearly states that God intended for man and woman to be different and to work as a team in all things but especially in families and in raising children. It is in this proclamation that the Living Prophet of God's Church stated that when the two genders were created with a bigger purpose and long before our life here on earth. One of my favorite lines is "Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose." God created us long before our life here on earth, and He did NOT get our gender wrong when He gave us our bodies, we are who He intended us to be when He created us in the premortal life, that being male or female.

The importance of this Proclamation doesn't end there though it continues to prove that the difference between men and women is more than society programming. It states that men are to preside, provide, and protect while women are to nurture. God gave us very distinct roles and then said that we are to work together as one man and one woman to create a home to rear children in. 

Life is not meant to be a competition of who can do what better, it is a team effort. We should not abandon who God created us to be just to prove that we can be better than someone else. But this is what we have turned life into a competition and a game of name calling. We as a society are trying to put new labels on God's creations and some of which are insulting to the creator Himself. As women we have a natural softness that we lose when we decide to make it about the competition. This softness is what allows us to sense when things are wrong. For men they have a natural protective side and desire to lead. We should magnify our divine callings and to help others magnify theirs. These roles are flexible when circumstances permit, examples being death or disabilities. 

This seems so perfect, together these natural qualities create the perfect team. It is almost as if God created it to be such. It is almost as if God created each of us with a bigger picture in mind.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Levels of infidelity 06/10/2023

  Did you know that there are 4 levels or types of infidelity? Two of these types of infidelity require a partner in crime of sorts. The other two are considered infidelity because of the secrets and deception that form from them. They are more sociological than they are physical. Lets break these down so that we can better understand what we are dealing with and so that we can evaluate ourselves. When you hear infidelity you probably think sexual infidelity, such as cheating or sleeping with someone other than your spouse or significant other. But did you know that sexual infidelity is not the most common type of infidelity. The scriptures call sexual sin second only to murder, so it makes sense that it wouldn't be the most common,  people think that as long as they don't sleep with someone else or kiss another they are ok, but that is far from the truth. The most common infidelity is emotional infidelity. It's when commitment changes to another person because of an emot...
Post a Comment
Read more

Just like your parents?

  Do you ever have those moments when you feel like you sound exactly like your parents? Or when a friend or sibling calls you out for being just like your mom or dad? Or sometimes being like your Grandma or Grandpa? Well this week in my Family Relations class Brother Michael D. Williams said something that really stuck out to me. You know, like those moments when someone says something and it's like a light switch got flipped and all of a sudden you understand the world. That is what this comment was for me, he said "The word familiar comes from family. That's why we feel like we sometimes feel like we turn into our parents." It clicked for me in high stress situations or high emotion situations we go to what is familiar to us. That is why we turn into our parents. It is literally how our brain is wired. Our family is our family, good or bad, for better or for worse. These habits can be changed with a lot of hard work and constant, consistent effort in hopes of being...
Post a Comment
Read more

Go on dates, not just hang outs

      Are we dating or hanging out? Are we trying to find a husband or a friend? Some will argue that we want our husband or significant other to be our friend, and we do in a way, but there needs to be more. We will not find our husband by simply hanging out with someone until curfew or until we have to clock into work.      Dating is a huge indicator about how life will be after marriage and can often foretell the problems that will be found ten years down the road. When we are dating we form habits for our future. These habits should be guided by the three P's that summarize the role of the man in the relationship and by the divine role given to women. The three P's are preside, protect, and provide meaning that the dates should give the guy opportunities to fulfill all three of these areas. An example of presiding in a date setting is planning. A guy should be considerate of what the girl is interested in. Does he give her a heads-up of what the pl...
Post a Comment
Read more