Well, it’s been two weeks and I still haven’t gotten the second half of my Job post finished. I had it almost to the point where I liked it enough to post it and then I decided to go a totally different direction with it. I never like anything I write. Anyway, I haven’t forgotten about you all and I am going to get the other post up SOMETIME this month. Hopefully.
Until then, I have a challenge for you.
I love to talk! I talk to everyone, from close friends to the person standing next to me at the sink of a public bathroom. One thing that I almost always ask is
“How are you?”
And 98% of the time, the answer is
“Good”.
No matter who I’m talking to, from a dear friend to someone I’ve never met before, I get an ambiguous, monosyllabic answer: “Good”.
But it goes the other way, of course. If someone asks me how I’m doing I always answer in less than five words. Why?
Because when someone asks you how you’re doing, they don’t really want to know! They don’t have time to listen to you gripe about what’s going on in your life! Every now and then I delay answering their polite inquiry for a few seconds, just to see what happens, and nearly every time they turn away without even noticing that I didn’t answer. Disgustingly, I am exactly the same way.
Caleb is one of those people who takes just a little bit more time than everyone else. I know that if I ask him how his day went, he will tell me all about it and I will be trapped in a one-sided conversation with him for a solid fifteen minutes. For this reason, I go out of my way to only say hello to him as I’m rushing past on an urgent mission to compare plans for the weekend with the other girls.
For whatever reason we do this, I am challenging you this week to stop and listen after you ask someone how they are doing. Even if he or she is a Caleb.
-BookFreak
Comments
Posted by BlogBoy RYC: You have a good point about that time in the Church, and as you said it can apply to people today also. Personally I think a family is a great way to praise God, but in some ways it might not be how God is leading some people.
If you look at proverbs you can see that being a mother is a very high calling. It is like "do great things, be a mother!" Lol. For real, being a parent and raising the next godly generation is one of the highest callings that there is.
Anyway, got to run!
Eric
Posted by Luthien Thank you so much! Naw, I don't really draw that well, at least not as well as a few certain peoples I know :)
Luth
Posted by BlogBoy And yes, I agree with you. I find myself in the same position, why should I make my bed everyday? I could be helping other people! But it turns out that everyone we do within our homes is really an act of building character..
Eric
Posted by Curufinwe ~CF