Have you ever thought about discernment?
My car and I talk:
I push the Bluetooth phone button.
“Ready,” my Chevy Equinox, so eager to please, responds.
“Call home.” I direct.
“Home?” the mechanical feminine voice asks. “Say yes or no.”
I quickly say, “yes.”
“Home?” the mechanical feminine voice asks. “Say yes or no.”
“Yes!” I repeated rapidly after her second attempt.
“Ok, good bye.”
After this happened to me several times, I learned my lesson. If I respond with my “yes” too fast after her question, my friendly computer friend doesn’t understand and the communication fails.
If I pause before I say “yes,” things go much more smoothly.
I explained my little trick with my car to my husband the other day when the universal truth of what I said hit my heart.
What good advice for making decisions too.
Pause before saying yes or no.
Things will go smoother when you don’t go too quickly.
Pause before saying yes – a bluetooth or “bluetruth” discernment practice.
What have you learned about discernment?
Discernment is a key spiritual practice. Check out this blog post for more ideas on how to be open to hearing God.
You make me smile. Look like car technology gives us both some lessons in life!
THanks Katharine. I knew as soon as I told my hubby about it in the car that it held so much truth to it that I had to share it.
Crazy week here for us with family illness and others expectations. I am just now feeling like I am catching up.
Praying you have a blessed Holy Week!
You are funny about my name. My hubby would tell you he was born that way; I had to marry into it.
Thanks for commenting on this post. simple but true direction for discernment. Have a marvelous weekend!
Thanks Christopher, That moment in the car when I shared this with my hubby, I just knew had to be a blog post. simple but held so much truth.
Something comical, I this same issue with my vehicle. In great frustration I would hit the end button after my car would annouce “OK goodbye”. Once I didn’t hit end and try again, and few moments later the car started dialing! “Oh!” I exclaimed. Come to find out, I had been understood all along. I guess the lesson my bluetooth insisted on teaching me was that sometimes I am understood, but don’t have the patience to let the other person process and respond before giving up on a conversation.
Wow, that is very good advice…glad you discerned it and shared it with us…praying you are well, dear Jean 🙂
What an awesome post! Wonderful advice.
Smiling.
This is so, so good. You’re living up to your WISE name once again.
My first reaction to this column, Jean?
OMG! That’s awesome.
As I pause to consider it, I realize just how practical the advice really is.
Thanks for sharing.
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Chris