Today, Wanda and I had the privilege of catching up with some friends from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Garth and Hazel Schierling were parents of a few College age students that we had in our small group when we were associate pastor @ Dalmeny Bible Church. We connected with memories of their children and how things had changed with them.
It was a noticable focus on their lives by the way the conversation went. In relfecting on the visit, it weems that so often the majority of our dialogue with others is focused on their experiences. This is good since one needs to be selfless when maintaing friendships. Yet it does seem odd that when others, who we haven't seen in a while make very little attempt to ask or pursue details of our life expereince. I feel like sometimes my story is not as comfortable to remenice in because pastoral life is difficult to understand and requires sensitivity in how one feels about content share--not always pleasent. Attempting to be transparent is not easy to do if one sensed that it is to self-focused and not worthy of focus. Maybe that is why one rather would keep the conversation light and not go to great depths
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