Comments on: When a Trailer Park is Just Right: On Manhood and the Duty to Provide http://owenstrachan.com/2008/02/27/when-a-trailer-park-is-just-right-on-manhood-and-the-duty-to-provide/ gospel calculus, with some whiz-bang Sat, 12 May 2012 14:57:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous http://owenstrachan.com/2008/02/27/when-a-trailer-park-is-just-right-on-manhood-and-the-duty-to-provide/#comment-904 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:09:00 +0000 http://owenstrachan.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/when-a-trailer-park-is-just-right-on-manhood-and-the-duty-to-provide/#comment-904 I worked two full time jobs and lived in an apartment in an old building so that my wife could be a full time caregiver. If only she had considered me and her son to be more important than television and drugs, it might have been worth it.

]]> By: Kyle E. http://owenstrachan.com/2008/02/27/when-a-trailer-park-is-just-right-on-manhood-and-the-duty-to-provide/#comment-903 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:58:00 +0000 http://owenstrachan.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/when-a-trailer-park-is-just-right-on-manhood-and-the-duty-to-provide/#comment-903 Owen,

Thanks for the post. How do you pursue your Ph.D. studies and uphold providing at the same time? I experience the tension between study and work right now too–I’m a 2nd year M.Div. at Trinity. Thanks!

Kyle

]]> By: Reid S. Monaghan http://owenstrachan.com/2008/02/27/when-a-trailer-park-is-just-right-on-manhood-and-the-duty-to-provide/#comment-902 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:45:00 +0000 http://owenstrachan.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/when-a-trailer-park-is-just-right-on-manhood-and-the-duty-to-provide/#comment-902 Very needed discussion…and the commenter above brings another good dimension to it. Great post.

]]> By: Anonymous http://owenstrachan.com/2008/02/27/when-a-trailer-park-is-just-right-on-manhood-and-the-duty-to-provide/#comment-901 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:58:00 +0000 http://owenstrachan.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/when-a-trailer-park-is-just-right-on-manhood-and-the-duty-to-provide/#comment-901 Hi Owen,

I really appreciate your blog, and read it regularly.

I have to take issue with this post though, because it’s assuming a definition of provision that is very narrowly focussed. I don’t think the man’s role is just to provide financially. From a woman’s perspective, I wouldn’t care if we lived in a trailer, but I would feel very poor for the lack of my husband’s time and energy at home if he was pouring himself into 2 jobs.

I know provision is a big drive for men, but for women emotional security is more important than financial security. I don’t care HOW we live, as long as it is together and the quality of our time together is real. When the focus becomes work for whatever reason, then the marriage relationship can so easily become a case of two ships passing in the night.

I think the definition of provision needs to include spiritual and emotional provision, and centre less around money.

“Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.” Proverbs 15:17

God bless.

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