My Sister’s Response to “What Exactly Makes Men Different From Women?”

This is a guest post from my sister, Kelsey. Kelsey has her Master’s Degree in Social Work and mentors new social workers while coordinating case managers. She recently decided to go back to school to learn ASL so she can better assist her clients. In her free time, Kelsey likes to read, write, exercise outdoors, and study the Bible.

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Here’s a link to last week’s article “What Exactly Makes Men Different From Women?” I appreciate Kelsey’s thoughts!

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I think women can defend and provide, and men can care, heal and nourish, all within God ordained roles.

This article is written from a perspective of a woman who got married young, has children, and upholds traditional views of husband and wife. [That’s me!] This is not bad! I just have a different perspective because of my life experience. My marriage will be very different than yours because I am older, and have stood on my own two feet and provided for myself for so long. All for myself, I have had to defend, provide, care, heal and nourish, and these are roles I will not easily give up, and will keep in some way even after I am married. They are part of who I am. If God didn’t want them to be a part of who I am, I think I would have been married much younger.

All of our life God uses to shape who we are meant to be, and I have learned to be all those things (defend, provide, care, heal nourish) because I have not had a choice in who does them. It’s me. It has to be. There is no one to do them for me. 

Just a different perspective. I think being aware of the lens in which we view life is important.