The older I get, the less I enjoy talking on the phone. Okay? Deal with it! Yet, when it’s necessary, I will make a call to others when it’s important, or I need to hear their voice. Social media won’t cut it. Texting doesn’t give the correct gist of feeling. And snail mail often leaves the urgency of the moment on the cutting room floor.
So. When it’s important to talk to someone, then follow through and do it!
Equally, that means answering the phone when you recognize a number because the other end of that connection may be needing to hear from you for their own sanity. Or comfort. Answer it!
In these days of anguish or suffering, the old fashioned phone call works when you cannot do something face-to-face. Isolation drives people into a dark hole. That ray of sunshine of a ringing connection can be the light of day needed to pull someone back from the brink.
“More than one-third of all adults and practicing Christians say anxiety or depression (or both) have impacted their close relationships – making them the most common barrier to relational satisfaction.” ~Barna Group
More than one-third of all adults and practicing Christians say anxiety or depression (or both) have impacted their close relationships – making them the most common barrier to relational satisfaction. ~Barna Group Click To TweetThis is important! Sometimes the voice is yours, or maybe a Spiritual voice. Regardless of the source, this must be the thing that some need to turn their ship around!
Consider The Source
There are witnesses everywhere who have heard a voice that was the change maker of their lives. Saul, later Paul, on the road to Damascus heard a voice from his newly blinded situation. On the backside of the desert, Moses saw a sight and investigated, only to hear a voice command him to a new path.
I was reading about Johnny Cash, you know him as the Man in Black. It was about 1967 or so. He was so far gone into a sad life of drugs that he crawled into a Tennessee cave. Nickajack Cave. Deeper and deeper, he went looking for the end of the path that would be his place to curl up and die. But loved ones came looking for him, and God spoke to him deep underground. His time wasn’t yet. There was still a mission in front of him. With no light and only the breath of fresh outside air on his face, he crawled out to continue as he was not able to do before his “rebirth.”
Could I say that sometimes it’s that little angel on your shoulder calling you in a better direction, or it may be that little devil on the other side pushing you farther away? This is why I say we must consider the source!
Be The Change
Can we ever get the world to be a better place? Is it even possible to not let one person go so far from the center? It was Ghandi who said, “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”.
Do not wait on someone else to be the example! You become the example for others.
It is the Apostle Paul who says it for me the best.
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
(Philippians 4:5-9 KJV)
Notice the most important phrase that I highlighted. Think. Do. What you’ve learned, received, heard, and seen in Paul’s life as an example. Think about it? Sure. Now. Do something about it.
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