Let
your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may
know how to answer everyone. (Colossians 4:6)
I'm writing
this with the plan to post it on a day when my conversation may not be full of
anything like grace. It's partly a response to our political season, and partly
a response to the vocally prevalent forces in our society. I started noticing
the force I'm talking about when I was in high school. It wasn't new then, but
since that time, I think it's become more entrenched in our society. One of my
coworkers and I had been having a verbal slam fest, "all in fun."
Later, I found myself wondering why it was that I couldn't think of any way to
be funny that built someone up.
I noticed it on
TV, too. Sit coms all seemed to involve putting someone down, putting someone
"in their place," showing someone up, showing how stupid, backward,
bad someone was. In other words, "funny" meant ridicule and abuse. In
a political season, or among activists, "Funny" and
"amusing" tends to mean agenda-driven propaganda.
If our
conversation is always full of grace, there is no room in it for anything else,
ever. There is especially no room in which to amuse ourselves at the expense of
another, even our enemies.
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In the sky:
New Moon
Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower (big one)
Birthday of
Sigmund Freud
Robert Edwin Perry
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