This is what we can count on, correctors, correctors everywhere; whether the corrector is correct or not, who knows? Who knows much?
I have been silent for awhile. On this post I have been silent.
Do you find yourself talking more or talking less these days? Do find yourself listening attentively to words directed at you or directed somewhere within access to or by your earshot, in any case with arrowpoint precision, or words not aimed at a point at all, but just hurled out and about at will? Do you find yourself not listening? Not talking?
Or, perhaps, do you find yourself responding, rebutting, or agreeing? However, is your next step to continue the spoken thought, observation, opinion, wonderment, or to turn away? Or–
Do you find yourself wanting to ask for silence?
I shrug a lot. I often don’t know what I think about something is said. Or about how it is said. Or about why it is said. Or if it has a twist I am missing. Or if the speaker is actually serious. Or if the speaker could possibly be serious, given the words, or the tone, or the forum, or the timing, or —
And so, my silence of late.
What if words spoken that prevailed were to the benefit of the recipient, and the recipient, always knowing this, accepts and grows, and speaks–words that are a benefit to a recipient. What if each speaker realized that said speaker/self is also a recipient? I.e., words I say will come back to me, as said.
A set of three questions that I am pondering:
Are generosity and grace always paired?
Can one be generous without extending grace?
Can one extend/give grace and not be being generous?
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