Pardon my Polemic
Thursday, June 28, 2007
♥ Thursday, June 28, 2007
Lets give credit where credit is due.Joshua," if you dont hope it just goes to show you dont love"Val, "it was the final straw for you"Jeanette, "it'll come to apoint where i wouldnt want to talk to you"Exasperation. There's something very ominous about all of this. It seems like everyone just wants to proselytise. They need to hear only things that they want to hear. How loved and blessed we are. How we must be truthful when we struggle so on and so forth. And its like the ultimate travesty if u share the wrong thing. And they have this whole memorised script at the back of their heads, with perfect scriptural verses and hymns and songs and life sharings to accentuate their points. ITs brilliant but its not human.when one does share, they're so quick to think of a rebuttal they forget the need of the person to simply be there to listen. So, people like me, talk back. And naturally there will be only a "talking at" never a "talking to". And interestingly, thats how u reach ultimatums like that. " if you carry on like this, there'll be a point where i wouldnt want to talk to you." Big surprise. "if you need to talk, i'll be here"You'll be here, to? To convert me? To tell me how im losing the big picture and that i must see what u do? And eventually i will let you speak. Because i know that unless you do, you wont ever feel like the conversation ended on a light, spiritual note. The one reason why i cant stop talking and being so contentious is because no one really listens. When i talked to Merrill, when i hear steven out, when i hear myself fulminating, i hear people who wants to be heard. Not people who wants advice nor appreciates it..people who needs understanding. Thats a kinda brokenness and a cry people will never admit to. Only maybe online. Where the people scrutinising are behind the masks of their computer screens. People whom such internet users and bloggers wouldnt really know. Thats how pathetic this whole situation is. That people have to complain to the anonymity of the internet community because the real living persons in the community have failed so miserably. Its interesting how we're getting pretty effective at our ministries and our delivery. How we planning fast and ahead. How we're getting evangelical and ambitious. But the heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. An individual's heart. A bleeding wounded heart that is neither in need of big talks on big visions, nor smart chats on theology, nor even righteous psychoanalyses. All that heart needs is another heart beating alongside it. In so much voices, there will be silence. And out of the silence, there will be a voice that 2 hearts beating together can hear. "a friend is one soul in 2 bodies"- Aristotle. Point is, simply, shut up.
