Sunday, February 3, 2008

Listening or Speaking?

Get all the advice and instruction you can, and be wise the rest of your life.
--Proverbs 19:20, NLT
Do we spend more time talking, sticking the word in edgewise, fighting to get a word in, so that we can be heard? Elaine has really enjoyed being pregnant through the first two trimesters, enjoyed it, because she is looking to what is coming, not the uncomforts of now. She has been getting weekly emails about pregnancy. One of the hot topics in pregnancy is naming the baby. There are megabytes consumed on the spelling, and people arguing in the blog on how to spell a name.

I just picked up a book from the library, "The Cult of the Amateur" which is about the internet: blogging, video posts and such. Everybody has a voice, but nobody is listening. The internet is the new interactive TV!
Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7
There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven...
A time to be silent and a time to speak
Now that I have spoken what's on my mind, it is time for silence, that I can learn and be wise.

Are you too busy speaking to listen?

1 comment:

  1. the culture of ranting is an interesting one and i suspect that there is an audience out there as well to listen as well as creating. that is what drives youtube...and blogs. but in terms of understanding a longer legacy of a tradition of faith or of general thinking, we live in a very limited and small world.

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