Perspectives on egalitarian relationships: @god_loves_women

This week's guest post comes from someone who really inspires me with her passion and motivation. @god_loves_women tweets and blogs about her faith, her convictions for overcoming gender inequality and injustice, and gender issues in the church and scripture. She is married, and has two children.

What does egalitarian marriage look like to me?

Beautiful, challenging and working through problems

Nobody top, nobody bottom

Living life in the tension, that neither is fully right

Neither of us having a full line of sight

We both can speak and both learn and both get it wrong

It’s part of the rhythm of marriage’s song

I pray to God for answers, as does he

Neither assuming the other better hears the Almighty

God created me with a mind, voice, soul and heart

My husband he created with the same

Together we’re better, stronger, lovelier

It’s not him being in charge…it’s not me being beneath

Because when it becomes about who makes the decisions

Or whether we get a blue or green car

When it’s one way or the high way

We can be sure that we’ve lost the way

Because love is too big for someone to be in charge

It’s not me or him but rather He, the Creator who commands our way

His will is highest and all that we desire

Not my way, or his way, but His way forever