My niece’s son got married Saturday at our church and his twin brother’s boy was seated behind me talking with my daughter. When asked by her to spell his dad’s name, he responded “His name is D-A-D” and then answered likewise to her next inquiry “Her name is M-O-M”. I couldn’t resist throwing him a curve regarding the latter. “Do you know”, I queried, “that if you turn MOM upside down, she becomes WOW?” He pondered that for a few seconds, then finally determined “She’s too heavy to turn upside down!”… The gap between delivery and reception often garbles what we try to communicate, the problem existing far beyond gender, more than age on either end of that spectrum, and probably going as far back as the Tower of Babel. Before language ever became a part of such issue, however, our thinking process was formed by individual genetics and longevity, the latter depending upon how much wisdom and knowledge one acquired along the way. Bible makes it clear, though, and in more places than one, that any time any of us reason we, alone, have it all figured out and set in concrete, in truth we know nothing as we ought to know. A willingness to explore the other person’s perspective, to engage in discussion without going to war, and to be content with giving God each other’s reins to work out the details allows for harmony, humor, and a healthier blood pressure.....
Amen, Brother Ben! :)
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