Being, doing and listening well
It was a Saturday evening and after a family teatime, I went into the study to look over my sermon notes for the following morning. I had not been in there long before one of my children came in to see me. “Hi Joshua, good to see you. What are you doing?” “Nothing, Dad.” “What do you want?” ‘Nothing,” he replied. I then went through a whole gamut of questions, “Are you hungry? Do you want a drink? Shall we read a story? Play a game? You okay?” It was lovely that he'd come to see me, but why?...