I have been reading a book by Margaret J. Wheatley that promotes conversation. In Turning to One Another she shares lots of interesting and thought provoking ideas.
This is the one that stays with me the most:
It's not our differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do. (p. 36)
It is very easy to judge--I seem to be exceptionally good at it.
Wheatley is promoting conversation as a means--Conversation is the natural way we humans think together.
But I am also challenged to understand something beyond this. (Which is not to say that it wouldn't be good to keep working on my listening skills.)
But if conversation is the way humans think together
is contemplation the way all creation thinks together?
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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In our contemplation, we usually have clarity- we see both sides and hopefully create courage in our conversation for acceptance versus judgment. You blog is always simply stated with the depth of a gospel writer.
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