![\"AP.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/AP.jpg\")
Communication is one of life’s most necessary events.\u00a0 The ability to convey our thoughts to another person and to receive their thoughts as well is indeed a blessing.\u00a0 Words, whether written or spoken, become the vehicle by which we express what is on our minds.<\/p>\n
Words beautifully arranged in perfect composition or in eloquent speech, however, do not necessarily mean communication has occurred.\u00a0 We may write or say what we really mean, but unless the one reading or listening is on the same frequency we may not accurately communicate.\u00a0 Words sometimes fail us because of the human tendency to misunderstand.\u00a0 How frustrating when our best attempts to communicate are misinterpreted.\u00a0 Good communication occurs when we work hard at giving and receiving the same signals.<\/p>\n
It is not always other people’s fault when they misunderstand what we think is clear speech.\u00a0 We may need to sit where they sit and listen with their ears to what we are saying.\u00a0 Seeking to understand another’s misunderstanding is one of life’s most loving expressions.\u00a0 We all have an emotional as well as a mental vocabulary.\u00a0 Some words have an emotional meaning which is not found in the dictionary.\u00a0 The cultural and psychological circumstances which birthed us have a lot to do with what we hear and what we say.\u00a0 To grasp this reality is an aid to good communication.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Sometimes we hear only what we want to hear.\u00a0 Our thought processes are so slanted we find it difficult to be objective in our listening.\u00a0 When this happens it is easy to quote someone out of context.\u00a0 We express the opinion of others from the perspective of our own opinion.\u00a0 Such mishandling of another’s conversation greatly hinders communication.\u00a0 It gives the appearance of dishonesty even though we simply repeat what we thought we heard.<\/p>\n
Jesus understood the human defects of speech and hearing.\u00a0 On one occasion He said, “Let your ‘yea’ be ‘yea’ and your ‘nay’ be ‘nay.” In other words. say what you mean and mean what you say.\u00a0 He also said, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” Jesus asks us to listen with discernment and integrity.<\/p>\n
When we speak and listen in love, good communication will often be the end result.\u00a0 May the words of our mouths and the listening of our ears be acceptable in His sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Communication is one of life’s most necessary events. The ability to convey our thoughts to another person and to receive their thoughts as well is indeed a blessing. Words, whether written or spoken, become the vehicle by which we express what is on our minds. Words beautifully arranged in perfect composition or in eloquent speech, … Continue reading “Listening Ears”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19080,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/19080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}