Tonight my roommate told me I was a teacup. I've been called many things before, but a teacup not so much. She heard it from a sermon a while back. The preacher was talking about how women are teacups and men are water jugs. Teacups are treated delicately and gently. Water jugs however are thrown around in all sorts of rough and tumble stuff. They get tossed in the back of a truck. You don't treat teacups and water jugs the same. A teacup is held with fingertips, a water jug with a fist.
She told me this because I was definitely fragile tonight. I crack. I get jostled around in this thing called life. I don't understand when I get treated like a water jug. I am not a water jug. I'm a little teacup... And to be perfectly honest, I like being treated with gentleness and kindness, that's the way He made me. I cherish my innocence, however foolish and naive that may seem to the outside world. It's believing Him that I'm worth being treated with respect that is a challenge for me...
1 Peter 3:7-8...Husbands (Guys), in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives (gals), and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. 8Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers (and sisters), be compassionate and humble.... I'm not anyone's teacup but His at the moment, so I kind of paraphrase it to make this applicable to my life. These verses remind me of how I should respect the gentlemen and ladies I have the honor to know. And yes, you have to add that Texas twang when you say gals...
She told me this because I was definitely fragile tonight. I crack. I get jostled around in this thing called life. I don't understand when I get treated like a water jug. I am not a water jug. I'm a little teacup... And to be perfectly honest, I like being treated with gentleness and kindness, that's the way He made me. I cherish my innocence, however foolish and naive that may seem to the outside world. It's believing Him that I'm worth being treated with respect that is a challenge for me...
1 Peter 3:7-8...Husbands (Guys), in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives (gals), and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. 8Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers (and sisters), be compassionate and humble.... I'm not anyone's teacup but His at the moment, so I kind of paraphrase it to make this applicable to my life. These verses remind me of how I should respect the gentlemen and ladies I have the honor to know. And yes, you have to add that Texas twang when you say gals...
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