Lift
Sometimes, there are those awkward moments… where nothing comes… no smart witty words… no clever repartee… nuthing. Just silence.
Sometimes, there are those awkward moments… where nothing comes… no smart witty words… no clever repartee… nuthing. Just silence.
“Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues.” -Proverbs 17:28.
“Hey! You keep talking during the sermon and you’ll go straight to Hell, you damned kids!” -One of the priests at my old church, St. Grumpy’s Cathedral.
Always sounds like a plan … until you do it. Heh.
I’ve been here before. You’ve got all this great stuff that you want to talk about. But when the time comes, you just draw a blank. Sigh… This happens more than I’d like to admit.
Ye cods… been a long time since I have been in that position… not since my very first girlfriend, back in the long past days of never-you-mind.
Filling the air with sound gets easier with experience, I think. Looks like neither is that experienced yet.
The Auld Grump
Come to think of it – I am pretty sure that being an open communicator was the result of Jesuit education… the Jebs were much happier with a student that argued with them – it meant that I was listening….
The Auld Grump
Dada… You DID listen! St. Grumpy of …..
All the churches here have extra stuff attached… Ste. Jean d’Acre, etc.
Grey… Well, it all sounds good until…
Squid… And the silences are painful.
Grump… More religious listening… Good News!