Mark 6:45-52
I was watching part of a clip on the net today. I hesitate to call it an interaction, it was more of a rant by Alex Jones appearing on the Piers Morgan's show. Even a rant isn't the proper word, it's difficult to describe. I could use words like rant and continue to virulent, rude, hostile, ignorant, opinionated and on and on. Oddly enough, that's not my point. My point is the blindness of the guest. There was no thought, no discussion, no intelligence really. It was a heavy artillery verbal assault. Mr. Jones could have been in a closet screaming to no one. He was in his own world.
Are we like that too? Perhaps not as virulent. Perhaps not as opinionated. But are there things in our life that we fail to see? As time passes since I have come out I am so totally amazed that I did not see that I was gay. The signs were all there, I mean really! I was blind to myself. Moving on, are our hearts hardened to one person or another, one group or another, one cause or another? Is it that we just don't listen? Are our hearts really hardened? I often say that people like that died years ago and that their bodies just haven't caught on. It is a sad state of affairs.
Yesterday I wrote about a change of heart, a conversion if you will. It involves openess and a willingness to listen. There was virtually no listening by Mr. Jones. But we all have our own blind spots so before I simply rant about him I should probably find a centering prayer and pray that I myself not let my own heart be hardened.
Empathy and listening is key. Harden not your hearts
I was watching part of a clip on the net today. I hesitate to call it an interaction, it was more of a rant by Alex Jones appearing on the Piers Morgan's show. Even a rant isn't the proper word, it's difficult to describe. I could use words like rant and continue to virulent, rude, hostile, ignorant, opinionated and on and on. Oddly enough, that's not my point. My point is the blindness of the guest. There was no thought, no discussion, no intelligence really. It was a heavy artillery verbal assault. Mr. Jones could have been in a closet screaming to no one. He was in his own world.
Are we like that too? Perhaps not as virulent. Perhaps not as opinionated. But are there things in our life that we fail to see? As time passes since I have come out I am so totally amazed that I did not see that I was gay. The signs were all there, I mean really! I was blind to myself. Moving on, are our hearts hardened to one person or another, one group or another, one cause or another? Is it that we just don't listen? Are our hearts really hardened? I often say that people like that died years ago and that their bodies just haven't caught on. It is a sad state of affairs.
Yesterday I wrote about a change of heart, a conversion if you will. It involves openess and a willingness to listen. There was virtually no listening by Mr. Jones. But we all have our own blind spots so before I simply rant about him I should probably find a centering prayer and pray that I myself not let my own heart be hardened.
Empathy and listening is key. Harden not your hearts
Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. After saying farewell to them, he went up on the mountain to pray.
When evening came, the boat was out on the lake, and he was alone on the land. When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he came towards them early in the morning, walking on the lake. He intended to pass them by. But when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought it was a ghost and cried out; for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, ‘Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid.’ Then he got into the boat with them and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded, for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
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