The men had a hilarious time talking about the women in their lives in the February's meeting. We divided the men into separate groups of married men and singles. These small groups came alive on the word go! They were asked this question:
To the married men: What are the things you find hard to understand about your wife?
To the singles: What do you think you will find hard to understand about your future wife?
These are the results of the sharing as each group presented their findings:
Marrieds
- Rules do not apply to them
- Can't meet her expectations
- Keeps us guessing
- Tolerate/long suffering
- Insecurity (women)
- Finding it hard to understand her feelings/heart
- Men not having a listening ear
- Women (detailed) / men (not!)
- Women like to give advice
- For the wife to be more like me? (rational)
- Irrational
- The wife can do better by giving advance warning
- Do not understand what we do not understand
- She is always right
- Men to be more specific
- Moving target (men do not know what they want)
- Is menopause license for mood swings?
- Need to the wife to be more specific
- Difficult for wife to say sorry!
- Say also wrong, don't say also wrong.
Singles
- Right all the time!
- Important to them, insignificant to us!
- Heart of Compassion
- More emotional (hard for men to understand)
- Different from men
From that I shared from my heart from my session at Women of Worth Conference. (Click here for file.)
In a nut shell, the heart of a woman is quite different from the heart of man, and we should stop finding fault in how different we are. Rather, there is a complimentary way of bringing out the best in each other.
I thought it best for March's meeting, I would like to explore a little further about the issues that were listed above. We will do another brain storming discussion on "Ten Ways to really love a Woman!" We will measure that against ten suggestions by an expert in this field of men's ministry and let's see how we fare. We go away with one thing we would do in the next one month and come back and share how we had fare. The way to grow is keep doing and evaluating in the context of a men's community. (See diagrams below.)
It will be an exciting morning! Bring a friend along. Open too to those who are not Christian.
Time and place at the sidebar.
