Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 3:6
Bible Doodle: Face to Face Time
See Me with Your Eyes
This is something we teach. To the child who doesn’t listen: “Look at my face while I’m talking.” To the student struggling with fractions: “Look. It’s just like cutting up a pizza pie.” To your fence-building helpers: “This is a post-hole digger. You hold it like this, punch it down, and lift out the dirt.… Read More
Have you had “the talk” yet?
Conversation does not seem to be a valued skill in America today. We are good at pointing fingers, making judgments, taking sides, insisting we are right and that we we have rights, and looking out for #1. After all, “we’re worth it.” Conversation happens in that middle space between two opposing viewpoints, between authority and… Read More
conversations
Conversation Group #1: “Which one is Ruth? You’re kidding, right? She’s one who doesn’t look at all like the rest of us.” “Can you believe that accent—you can’t understand a word she’s saying, and she walks around Bethlehem as if she thinks she belongs here. I don’t like it.” “Poor Naomi—to have a woman like… Read More
