My Front Porch Happy Thanksgiving to all of my front porch friends. Its 22* this morning but hopefully it will warm up a little today so the grand kids will play outside some! We bought our turkey from Famous Daves BBQ and Robin has prepared everything else. It has the ingredients of a perfect day!!!! I hope yours is as well. Ive been thinking about family and friends and how important they are in our lives. And how important it is to keep in touch with them. And that got me to thinking about strengthening our relationships with each other. There are five areas in each of our lives that we deal with each day: spiritual, physical, emotional, social, and financial. Id like to talk about dealing with the social part of our life. Our social skills are determined by our ability to communicate with others. For some, communicating with others isnt a problem. But some have a very difficult time not only communicating with others but communicating in a non-threatening way. Some communicate only about what theyre doing and the communication is always one sided. To those being on the receiving end of a one sided conversation, it gets old. Heres a novel idea, Enough about me, tell me whats going on in your life! And then when we begin to let them tell us whats happening in their life, we need to do more than hear them, we need to listen to them. Ive found that everyone needs a friend that they can confide in. There are those that have no one and are crying on the inside for someone not to just hear them but listen to them. Ive found that listening is the key ingredient to communicating with others. I know there are those that end up saying the wrong things and I never know how to respond so Im just going to cut them off my list of friends! That will teach em! Yeah, we taught them alright; weve taught them that apparently they have no worth or value. And we let them die quietly on the inside until they die on the outside. Everyone wants and needs to feel important to someone. And if we know that we are complete in Him, then we dont have to make the conversation about us, we can make it about them and help them to be complete. Think with me for a moment, ask the Lord to show you someone that has no friends that need to have the pain on the inside of them ministered to. Just a simple phone call or a hand written note to let them know that you believe in them. That may be all it takes to begin their healing process. Several years ago President Bill Clinton made a statement that many of us have made fun of, but when you look past the making fun of part, theres a lot of truth to his statement, I feel your pain! Like him or not, maybe, just maybe, that was the key that won him two terms. Have you and I listened to the pain of others or are we just hearing them so we can move on to more important matters like, heres my business card, call me sometime and lets get together! Emotional pain is more real than physical pain and we have what it takes to begin the healing process in others. Have a blessed day and then bless someone, Pastor Vic
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:16:04 +0000
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