Taking time to reflect
Here's something to think about from www.newyorktimes.com:
"PEOPLE are experience rich and theory poor," the writer Malcolm Gladwell said recently. "People who are busy doing things — as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops — don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them."Amen (HT: Conrad Gempf).
posted by Milton Stanley at 4:05 PM
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I read "Blink" a few months ago; my wife just finished it and "The Tipping Point" recently. We both agree that his work is provocative.
But now I wonder about my glowing praise for "Blink." With Richard Posner suggesting that I am enamored of a book written for people who do not read books, I am without steady feet. Am I really as obtuse as Posner intimates?
Who knows?
Thanks for the link.
Peace.
This idea of being so busy that you miss the life taking place around you really hit home for me last night - I was called by a friend that her husband (both are in my home Bible study) was on the verge of suicide... so I went over, and then followed them to the hospital where he got admitted for "observation." As I talked with him in his room it was obvious this man was feeling hopeless and filled with despair. I held his hand as he wept - loudly - and continuously - I've never really experienced that level of despair in a person before... and I've been around! And what I thought in that moment was how "THIS is 'the church' - us being there for each other." When the wife called, I could have been "busy" had I wanted... but then, of course, I would have missed out on the gift God gave me of being able to just BE THERE for a brother...
Let people call me a cheapskate and someone who doesn't read books. Whatever Posner says, I plan to read Blink as soon as I can find it cheap.
You're right about the church being too busy, too. Glad you were able to listen to your brother in Christ at that very low moment.
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