TOP POSTS ALL TIME - THE LOST VALUE OF COMMUNICATION

 Continuing this week's emphasis on the best of the posts of LIFE MATTERS that are originally written by me. This one first appeared February 5, 2011 - Steve

THE LOST VALUE OF COMMUNICATION

 Karen Spears Zacharias pointed me to a new blog and these profound words:

"Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate." - Ann Voskamp,  A HOLY EXPERIENCE

As a pastor, I deal frequently with the effects of poor communication.  Lives broken because someone was not careful in their communication, embedding lies into someone's heart through de-humanizing or manipulative communication.  Relationships gone sour because someone did not understand that listening is part of communicating. Dreams unrealized because of a fear of expressing one's heart or dreams shattered because someone crushed the vulnerability of the dreamer beneath words spouting from a critical spirit. "Speaking the truth in love," is the counsel of the Bible but a soul disconnected from the Source of that Love will never truly communicate truth.

Not only is communication a lost art for many, but the commitment to communicate in civil and constructive ways has become a forgotten value in our culture.  Such a development is a measure of the poverty of our souls.

(c) 2011 BY STEPHEN L DUNN

While we are at it, another of my favorite personal photos:

Can you tell he's a Tiger's fan>? - July 2013