Re: Time to Give Mark Driscoll a Sabbatical?

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Johne Cook wrote:
> Mark's interpretation tortures the gist of what Paul wrote in his 
> letters; men shouldn't determine to avoid work and stay home for the 
> sole purpose of sponging off their wimmenfolk. That's not Peter's case, 
> where staying home is a noble (and pragmatic) sacrifice on behalf of his 
> kids and his family-at-large.

I'm leery of calling what I do a "sacrifice", much less a "noble" one, but 
"pragmatic" is certainly right.  My wife has a unionized job with a pretty 
good extended health benefits plan, etc. etc., and she was making about 
twice as much at that job as I was with my freelance writing.  It just 
seemed natural to *both* of us that I should be the one to stay home with 
the kids, once she had finished her year of maternity leave.  (Plus, for 
the first few years at least, a fair bit of the work that I did was work 
that I could do from home anyway, though I often worked on it 'til three 
in the morning because I had to wait until the kids were in bed.)

Plus, for whatever it's worth, I think I'm a little more organized than my 
wife (which is not to say that *things* are necessarily more organized 
around here... what I mean is that I compartmentalize better, in all 
senses of the word, both pro and con), and the fact that I stay home with 
the kids has been helpful, in this regard, as I juggle the schedules of 
our son's autism-therapy workers and fill out all the various bits of 
paperwork that are needed by the preschool, the government, the 
health-insurance company, etc., etc., etc.  (Side note: a few years ago, 
my wife and I were going through a stack of her papers, and we found a few 
tax-rebate cheques that had expired months earlier.  It boggled my mind, 
because the moment *I* get a cheque, I stick it in my wallet because *you 
never know* when you might happen to walk past an ATM next...)

-- 
dadl-ot mailing list
http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot