Sunday, April 25, 2010

give men more respect

Give men more respect.


Respect them enough to think they can handle a woman in leadership. That they won't be thrown off by a female preacher.

That they aren't all hopelessly messy, in desperate need of a wife to domesticate them.

That men won't scared out of church if there are women there, even if they are leading some things.

That men can, and are, living into their callings and also encouraging women to pursue what God is calling them to do, not as sidekicks but as partners in bringing God's kingdom to all the earth (back to Gen. 1).

That men don't want women to downplay their (women's) strengths and intelligence.


I've heard the opposite of all these things, either in conversation or from a pulpit. Sometimes more times than I can remember throwing up.

It seems that many stereotypes and prototypes that have limited women's roles hurt men just as much.

I'm not saying what I'm not saying (i.e. I'm not implying that men and women don't need each other. Not defining men and women's roles... not even touching that).


Just sayin' --give men more credit.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

my life in lyrics...

~mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb... (plus 5 more verses)

~I will sing unto the Lord for He has triumphed gloriously, the horse and rider thrown into the sea! the Lord is God and (CLAP) I will praise him, my father's God and I will exalt him, the Lord is God and (CLAP)...

~Faithful One so unchanging, ageless One I depend on you... you are my rock in times of trouble...

~Shen zhen mei hao, Shen zhen mei hao, Shen zhen mei hao, ta dui wo zhen hao

~Bien bien bien bien bien bien bien, wo yao bien!

~o God you are my God and I will ever praise you

(the nutcracker, Trepak!)

~there's a new way to be human, it's nothin we've ever been

~o gently lay your head upon my chest and I will comfort you like a mother while you rest

~and I don't want the whole world to see me, cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am.

(radesky's march)

~I can't stand to fly, I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find the better part of me
I'm more than a bird, more than a plane
more than some pretty face beside a train
and it's not easy to be me

(les miserables)

~sing to me of the song of the stars
of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again
when it feels like my dreams are so far
sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again
so i lay my head back down...

~he leadeth me o blessed thought o words with heavenly comfort fraught

~come back to find you tell you I need you don't know how lovely you are...

(clair de lune-- arr. for orchestra)

~when you try your best but you don't succeed---when you get what you want but not what you need--when you feel so tired but you can't sleep---stuck in reverse--and the tears come streaming down your face--when you lose something you can't replace--when you love someone but it goes to waste--what could be worse?

~no woman no cry

~BIcycle BIcycle BIcycle ... o so much more Queen...

~make you banana pancakes, pretend like it's the weekend now

~honey you are a rock upon which I stand... green eyes, yeah the spotlight shines upon you...

(jeux d'eau)

~grace-- she carries the world on her hips, champagne flute for her lips

~baum baum baum baum baum ba baum I feel free...

~and the truth is
I miss you
and the truth is
I need you
I should not have let you go

~you turned me into somebody loved
~don't you dare speak for someone you don't know, I feel it in the back of the throat, you know I can't construct a poem cuz words like girls get bored and run,
c 'est la vie...

~when clouds veil sun and disaster comes, o my soul o my soul

~I was a little girl alone in my little world who dreamed of a little home for me, I play pretend between the trees...

~I go to Coney, the beach is divine, I go to ball games, the bleachers are fine...


~I've got a scar for every song and blood left still to bleed, but I don't want to waste your time with music you don't need

~once there was a way to get back homeward
once there was a way to back home
sleep pretty darlin, do not cry, and I will sing a lullaby

~you hem me in with skin all around me

~my love is real before your eyes, He's ravished by the sight of one glance from me


got to stop this foolish mission..
keep remembered more songs that changed me!