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Really Communicating
By webmaster @ 7:00 AM :: 181 Views ::
1 Comments :: Dr. John Killinger
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I remember the warning expressed by Henry David Thoreau, the apostle of early American transcendentalism, when someone told him the electric telegraph had just been invented and people in Maine could then communicate instantly with people in Texas. "But what," he asked, "if the people of Maine have nothing to say to the people of Texas?"
It's a sobering thought, isn't it? Today we have all this wonderful technology, so that we can communicate instantly and effortlessly with people around the globe, whether they're in Karachi or Beijing or Buenos Aires. But how are we really using it? Advertisers have been quick to send out sales pitches and political organizations are especially active now in a pre-election time. But how purposefully are we writing others to say we love them and are praying for them and wish them a nice day or a good life? What do we have in our hearts that is really worth communicating?
Maybe we ought to start every blog or e-mail with a moment of silence in which we pray:
"Dear God, make me an instrument of your love and peace today, and let the messages I'm about to send be filled with vibrations of your own warm and nurturing heart."
It couldn't hurt. That way, even if we didn't have a lot to say to people in faraway places, we'd be sending the kind of impulses that make the world a smaller and more habitable place. We'd be helping God to put his arms around others.
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newburghmark @
Saturday, March 08, 2008 11:32 AM
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Good point. Emails aren't read, they are skimmed. Cyberspace has only made it possible to talk past each other at lightning speed. The true listener is a rare gift. How often, when we purport to listen, are we really just thinking of how we are going to respond when the person is finished, or how to keep a conversation flowing that deserves to die?
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