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Voices....

I have been thinking about so many voices.....Do you know what I'm talking about?  There are people yammering away all the time all over the earth.  Talk Talk Talk.....   I think it's our day and age.   Was there so much communications available 30 years ago?  Back then there wasn't fb and blog spot and xanga and cell phones were just in the works.  Email is new.  We live in a time where instant gratification is the norm.  And I should be happy.  I love feedback.  I like words.  I like talk talk talk.  But I wonder.  Are all these talk/ voices/ communication all good?  I don't doubt that we can be a great edification to each other and make this stuff work good for us.  I'm sure that's what the verse in the Bible is advising us when it says we are to edify....at least this could be part of it.  So I can look at this like here is my opportunity to edify  even more than back when snail mail was the norm and when each house hold might have had just one phone.  Now we all have cell phones. One for each person in the house...not yet in our house though.
   So we've had overnight guests the last week or so.  The one guest and I were talking (and I like that we could talk for REAL...much nicer than virtual stuff) and she was talking about wondering if being away out where there aren't a lot of people if it makes one unbalanced.  Like as a mom.  We get so awfully tired and mom brained.  And it's awfully easy to question ones self and wonder if we're training our kids right...if we're obeying our husbands....if we're encouraging and being the voice that makes for happiness and joy and peace.    So in cases like these.  Do the millions of voices help us be balanced or do they just help us make balanced decisions.  Should one not google so that they can stay blissfully ignorant?!:)  Ya, I don't think that really either.  Information is good for the most part.  I just have to wonder....how to sort out all this information/ communications/ virtual relationships. 
    I think a little more quietness wouldn't hurt in the effort to sort.  And I think a lot more prayer in the same effort.  And a lot more direction directly from the Bible.   And I think a lot more of a listening heart on my  part....not so much of the yammering on a point. Like a dog gnawing on a bone.....pretty soon the bone gets about gone and there's no good left in it.  Kind of like this post............:)   Have a fine day! 

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Jenn said…
I hear you! Whenever I can get outside by myself for a good walk in the quiet country side I feel so refreshed....away from all the clamor. Seems as if I can "hear" God better then, too.
March 25, 2011 1:16 PM
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