Mercy Not Sacrifice
7. Budget time for real life conversations
I don’t know how bad you are about “talking” more through words you type on your phone than in real life conversation. I’m really bad. And it makes me a toxic person. When I went to the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina, I didn’t have cell signal for four days and it was a tremendously healing respite for me. I really think the absence of real life conversations in our world is one of the most important sources of our toxicity. When I have real life conversations with Christians I disagree with, it’s completely awkward and completely beautiful. It’s so much harder to hate people when you see their faces right in front of you. Some of my most transformative real life conversations have happened with people who completely disagreed with me ideologically. My grandpa was a conservative Republican Texas Baptist oilman. He checked all the boxes of stereotypes that people on my team love to hate. And he was one of the best friends I’ve ever had. The conversations we had on the back roads of south Texas were some of the richest moments of my life. I need to budget more time for real life conversations like that in my life today.
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