After writing a bit today, I came across these comments from Os Guiness, and found them provoking as I go on and on about our travels, convicting me of too muchness with words... these Bangladeshi boys may have it right :)
"In our great age of communication people suffer from inattention. Information is cheap: email, voicemail, tweets, facebook, myspace, and texting—cheap info. Everyone is speaking and no one is listening. Attention is a commodity far more rare than gold. Listening is more than physical hearing but it is a spiritual and moral attention that is heeding with the inner ear.
"If we ever need you, dear Holy Spirit, it is today. We suffer from an inflation, not economically, but of ideas and output. Words, words, words. Auditory and visual wallpaper dilutes truth when one hears it.... This is the humiliation of the word and eventually the Word. Words become cheap and empty."
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I couldn't resist commenting here. I am listening :-)
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