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Trying to get this blog going again and thinking about
eating before dinner. I have come up with this really easy trick to greatly improve
dinner manners. If you are going
out to eat with some one and want to impress them simply eat
before you go to dinner. This way, you can politely
nibble at your food while engaging in polite dinner
conversation and not
lustily gobbling every morsel of food that is set before you. Because your appetite is already filled and you are not
starvingly hungry.
I think we use this same idea in our
personal relationships; we often fill our selves before we engage in a relationship. We use about anything to snack on. we use
talk radio, philosophy,
pornography, sports, stories fantasies, and anything that fills our physical and emotional needs. After we have filled our needs and desires with this stuff we enter our relationships
politely!
This is polite
engagement is encouraged in our culture but i am not sure that this is a good idea. Could it be that we should
enter our relationships
ravenously? Should we
pursue our relationships like a
starving man seeks food?
When we come to the
table of a relationship we have so
gorged ourselves that we really don't need the other person at all. We are just there for the
pleasant conversations with an occasional
morsel of flavor.
We even
approach God in this same way. We have all our philosophy and theology laid out so each time we meet Him we have some
trite question that we want to understand instead of
rushing madly into His arms as we should.
1 comment:
I feel this is a good thing to keep in mind as far as one's relationship with God is concerned. However, I'd have to disagree with ravenously entering a relationship with the opposite sex. It's this kind of uncontrolled, mad dash towards what we think is love that leads to hasty decisions, promises that we shouldn't make, heartbreak, and, in general, losing ourselves and our minds to an obsession with another person. Sure, it's romantic, it's exciting, but is it really the best thing for us?
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