AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH part 2
My reading has been slowed lately because I've been busy with the Wrinkle in Time series. That's another set of books I never read as a child. I'm enjoying them immensely, but am still trying to keep up with Neil Postman. The last couple chapters have started me thinking about my conversational habits. Postman's premise is that our modes of communication have been so influenced by television that we now try to entertain each other when we talk to each other. I have found this to be only too true. While someone else is talking I'm thinking about what I can say that will make them laugh or make them think approvingly of me. How often do I, instead, really listen and try to draw the other person out? Not very often.
"The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out." Proverbs 20:5
2 comments:
Excellent thoughts, Meredith. So we should pray that we would be women of understanding.
There is a lot of verses in Proverbs about understanding...
Hey girl- Just checking in. Haven't seen you around the halls at church lately...did I ever tell you I used to see you in the halls a lot? :o) Have you found a Sunday School class? How's the running going?
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