I'm on the phone with my grandma right now, the slightly crazy one, and she is commenting about how she quit going to the church down the street because the priest was a little "ACDC".
Hmm...
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
On my mind...
I feel full of thoughts today...
In a lame attempt to sort them out, I have turned to my blog. Indeed...this will be a lame attempt.
I'm struggling today with the whole concept of "gossip". In no way am I claiming innocence to this act. There are days when I gossip unknowingly, days where I justify it as "well, I really care for this person" or "I just need to talk this out", and days where I am fully aware of what I am doing, the implications that it could potentially have, the harm it could do, yet I do it anyway.
Gossip: idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others
Idle Talk: talk of no real worth, importance, or significance
Idle talk? How much time do I spend talking about things that have no real significance, importance and are of no real worth? I'm scared to answer that question. It's probably far more time than I want to admit. What scares me even more...I know I have come along way since the 'ol junior high days. Are we so scared to be vulnerable, to talk about the things that are important in life, to open ourselves up to someone else, that we feel we need to talk idly, to spread rumors, to share the latest tidbit of someone elses personal life? Do we feel the need to spread gossip about others to validate that we are a somebody? That we are in "the know"? Are we that afraid to be ourselves that we can only communicate with one another through gossip?
Am I that afraid to be vulnerable and to be myself?
I don't want to engage in idle talk. I want conversations that speak truth in love, that are uplifting and encouraging, that are honest and real; that reflect the character of Christ.
Maybe I am that afraid to let go, to be totally vulnerable and to be myself...God help me not to hide behind idle talk and gossip.
(Silly me, forgetting to reference my definitions. Those would be taken from www.dictionary.com, mainly because I don't own a dictionary...actually, maybe I do? Either way, I'm too lazy to get up and look for it...)
In a lame attempt to sort them out, I have turned to my blog. Indeed...this will be a lame attempt.
I'm struggling today with the whole concept of "gossip". In no way am I claiming innocence to this act. There are days when I gossip unknowingly, days where I justify it as "well, I really care for this person" or "I just need to talk this out", and days where I am fully aware of what I am doing, the implications that it could potentially have, the harm it could do, yet I do it anyway.
Gossip: idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others
Idle Talk: talk of no real worth, importance, or significance
Idle talk? How much time do I spend talking about things that have no real significance, importance and are of no real worth? I'm scared to answer that question. It's probably far more time than I want to admit. What scares me even more...I know I have come along way since the 'ol junior high days. Are we so scared to be vulnerable, to talk about the things that are important in life, to open ourselves up to someone else, that we feel we need to talk idly, to spread rumors, to share the latest tidbit of someone elses personal life? Do we feel the need to spread gossip about others to validate that we are a somebody? That we are in "the know"? Are we that afraid to be ourselves that we can only communicate with one another through gossip?
Am I that afraid to be vulnerable and to be myself?
I don't want to engage in idle talk. I want conversations that speak truth in love, that are uplifting and encouraging, that are honest and real; that reflect the character of Christ.
Maybe I am that afraid to let go, to be totally vulnerable and to be myself...God help me not to hide behind idle talk and gossip.
(Silly me, forgetting to reference my definitions. Those would be taken from www.dictionary.com, mainly because I don't own a dictionary...actually, maybe I do? Either way, I'm too lazy to get up and look for it...)
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