Tuesday,
May 9, 2023
Disclaimer: Gentlemen…Mother’s
Day is at hand….there…you’re warned!
But there is one thing I want you to know: The head of every man is Christ, the head of
woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
1 Corinthians 11:3
It is my belief that
men really do want to communicate; contrary to the stereotypes that you see,
where the husband has the newspaper up over his face at the kitchen table. Everything the wife says to him, he grunts a
response. Men aren't that way deep
down. This is a stereotype produced by
ignorance. But, sometimes it shows up in
our character, and then in the funny papers.
Leroy and Loretta Lockhorn are walking down the street, and he says to
her: Let's go some place noisy where we can't hear each other. I don't believe men are really like that; I
believe men want to communicate. Men
realize the importance of communication.
The tricky part is doing it!
Communication is not
an exact science. Women communicate
differently than men. The Bible says we
must speak the truth in love. I believe that to be a bit of Apostle Paul’s advice
that applies to both male and female. By that I mean men and women both believe it;
they just practice it differently. The
men relate to the part that says speak
the truth. The women concentrate on in love. Men are interested in
logic, the right brain problem solving mechanism. Women, however, don't just want truth and
problems solved; it must be in a loving way.
Women want to talk about things. When I arrive home from a day at the office,
if my wife has a problem, she wants to discuss
it. There is something therapeutic for
her in sharing. I am a problem-solving machine. She states the problem, I immediately have a
six-point program, complete with intermediate reporting steps and
accountability factors to fix that puppy!
And I think I'm doing real well...man I'm communicating! After dutifully listening for several minutes,
my wife loses interest and busies herself in making dinner. I wonder what in the world I did to make her
mad. Lack of communication.
We were talking
about the same event, but I was bulldozing it out of existence, while she
wanted to squeeze every last drop of meaning from the depths of all
relationships involved.
In Brewer, Maine,
the police got a phone call one time about a woman who was very disturbed. She was talking to a lady friend of hers on
the phone. After a while the phone just
went quiet and all she could hear was gasping breaths in the distance. She couldn't get her friend to respond. The police sent a patrol car. The cop knocked on the door, but could get no
response. She went around to the side
and looked in the kitchen window. There
was the woman, spread-eagle on the floor, with the phone next to her. She thought: Oh my
gosh, she's had a heart attack and died right there! She was going to break in the door, but knocked
just in case there was another family member in the house somewhere. When the door opened, it was the woman who
was laying in the kitchen. She
explained, I'm so sorry. I guess we were talking too long on the
phone. I laid down on the floor to rest
a moment and fell asleep while Hattie was talkin' to me.
(As a preacher I can relate!)
For You Today
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