A side note from "Working the Angles"

Here's another quote that struck me. Pastor Peterson was making a point about listening for God's voice, but he made the point, too, about loving my wife well.

"Many people much prefer reading over listening. It is less demanding emotionally and can be arranged to suit personal convenience. The stereotype is the husband buried in the morning newspaper at breakfast, preferring to read a news agency report... the scores of yesterday's athletic contests, and the opinions of a couple of columnists whom he will never meet rather than listen to the voice of the person who has just shared his bed, poured his coffee, and fried his eggs, even though listening to that live voice promises love and hope, emotional depth and intellectual exploration far in excess of what he can gather informationally from [all the newspapers] put together."

A good reminder, not only in how I treat my wife, but my kids, too.