This episode of Be Still and Know examines the art of listening. The Rev. John R. Gunn writes, "Sometimes we listen well enough and then go away and forget or dismiss what we have heard." James says, Whoever listens and does nothing is like a man who glances at his natural face in a mirror. He glances at himself, goes off and at once forgets what he was like.
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Have you heard or seen anything like the reports from some of the Town Hall Meetings on the proposed healthcare plan? Screaming and yelling. Uncivil behavior. I know the rhetoric rachets up several notches when people are frightened; that's to be expected. But the unfiltered emotion, the vitriol, the volume? What has happened to us? Have we forgotten how to talk, really talk with each other?
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