It's all in the name

Do you ever have trouble remembering someone's name? You may have asked them for their name but you weren't listening when they told you, and now you have to ask them again. Don't you hate it when that happens? I met a guy last week (his name is Earl, which by the way I've managed to remember) that said he used to have trouble remembering people's names until he realized why. He was focusing solely on his introduction of himself when he met someone new, and not on the person he was actually meeting. Once he got it through his head that the important one was the person he was meeting, not the one he was introducing, he was able to focus on people and remember their names.

How remarkable and remarkably simple?!

"Christians who can no longer listen to one another will soon no longer be listening to God either; they will always be talking even in the presence of God. The death of the spiritual life starts here, and in the end there is nothing left but empty spiritual chatter and clerical condescension which chokes on pious words. Those who cannot listen long and patiently will always be talking past others, and finally no longer will even notice it. Those who think their time is too precious to spend listening will never really have time for God and others, but only for themselves and for their own words and plans."--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

So make somebody's name important to you today. Remember it.

In humility, consider others better than yourselves (Philippians 2:3)