“Can I Get an Amen?” (standard:humor, 904 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Mar 11 2018	Views/Reads: 1757/1213	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
As I was sitting in my chair nursing my pain, I came to at least one conclusion. I am not going to ask people how they are unless I really want to know how they are.

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them how I was doing. 

All that afternoon I dominated the conversation of every telephone
solicitor that called. I never allowed them to get a word in edge wise 
because they asked me how I was doing and I was going to tell them. 

My wife came home from the office and saw me smiling. 

“What in the world,” she said as she walked towards me, “are you smiling
about?” 

“All afternoon,” I explained to her, “people were calling me asking me
how I was. And so I spent all afternoon telling these people exactly 
how I was.” I then chuckled. 

She just looked at me and then broke out laughing herself. 

I found out the telemarketers are not really interested in “How you
are.” All they're interested in is selling something I really don't 
need. But I enjoyed the day telling them how I was doing. 

That's the way it is with most people today. They say one thing but they
really do not mean it. They do not want to know how I am doing. It is 
just something they politely say when they do not know what else to 
say. 

David understood this when he wrote, “They speak vanity every one with
his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they 
speak” (Psalm 12:2). 

How often does this happen in our daily life. 

Then David said this about himself, “My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and
the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding” (Psalm 49:3). 

As I was sitting in my chair nursing my pain, I came to at least one
conclusion. I am not going to ask people how they are unless I really 
want to know how they are.


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