Men's Thinking vs. Women's Thinking

This past week I had the opportunity to hear Sharon Grimes speak. Particularly humorous was what she had to say about how men and women are different.

Men tend to think this way: This ONE thing I do… Phillipians 3:13

Women tend to think this way: I can do ALL things… Phillipians 4:13

She then showed a box that had multiple drawers in it. Each drawer was labeled with the different things a man might think about during a day.

She held up a rubber ball that represented her husbands brain and said, “When my husband wakes up in the morning his mind is on getting a fire going in the wood burning stove. If I try to talk to him about something else, he doesn’t really hear what I’m saying because his mind is in the wood burning stove box.”

If you want to talk to your husband you must be sure his mind is in that particular “box”.

To represent a woman she had a container and a bag of marbles.

“When we ladies wake up in the morning we’re thinking about: getting dressed, fixing breakfast, calling Aunt Marge, the appointment at the dentist, homeschooling, waking up the children, etc.” (every time she would mention an item she would drop another marble in the container)

Then she rotated the cup, slowly at first and then faster and faster – representing how our minds just get to whirling with all the myriad of tasks we need to accomplish in our day.

So true! I love having my morning time, before the kids wake up, for devotions and “me” time. It’s the calm before the storm. Once the kids are up it’s a whirlwind of activity for the remainder of the day.

The day after the workshop my husband and I awoke. Before his feet had even hit the floor I was talking. My voice followed him as he disappeared into the bathroom. I thought that when he returned from the bathroom he would want to crawl back into bed and let me talk his ear off have a nice chat.

So I lay there in anticipation. Can you believe, that he actually started to go sailing out of the room? I asked him just where he might be headed. His reply – “I’m going to go start a fire.” Ha! Isn’t it funny to think how we are all so different but can be so much alike whether here in Arizona or in New York where Sharon and her husband live?

I now know not to get annoyed by this seeming lack of interest in my conversation. I just need to be sure his brain is in the “listening” box and to remember a man’s Scripture – “This ONE thing I do…”