People don’t half talk rubbish sometimes. I wonder how much completely irrelevant stuff comes through our mouths? I was thinking that whilst conversing with my wife.
It occurred to me that to be able to hold a decent conversation you need to have something in common. Of those things in common it could be people or issues, sometimes both. Often conversations get stuck because we talk past each other or at each other rather than for each other. I say what I want to say, I give the other a chance to say what they want to say, but really I want it back on what I want to say and I’m more interested in that. Worse still, I might have nothing to say and be happy to let the other yak on with no intention of genuinely being interested.
The ideal, then, is to get our conversations on a similar wavelength where we contribute to a feast of edifying and enlightening exchanges that culminate in a content and satisfied feeling of being able to hear and then develop and then hear further on that which pertains to the important things in life. Noble though that ideal is, I wonder what would happen to our conversations if they were assessed on whether they would be edifying and enlightening. I’m fairly sure a significant percentage of my conversations would have to change drastically.
Dear God, help me to cut the cr….Rubbish and talk that which brings light and builds others.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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