When this passage warns us...
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When this passage warns us not to refuse to hear God when God speaks, I think of my grandparents. My grandfather never had very good hearing and in his later years wore a hearing aid. The problem was that he often forgot to turn it on. So we would often be shouting at him and he would tap his hearing aid and mutter, "This darn thing must be broken, I can't hear a thing you're saying."
"Grandpa," we'd say, "you forgot to turn it on."
"I what? Oh, wait, it's not on. There that's better. Now what were you saying?"
"Nothing, Grandpa, forget about it."
One day I asked my grandmother about Grandpa's failing memory and she laughed.
"His memory is fine," she said. "He just leaves that hearing aid off so I won't ask him to do anything. He knows I hate shouting from all over the house."
My grandmother had a wonderful term to describe my grandfather's condition. She used to call it "selective hearing."
--Parlette
"Grandpa," we'd say, "you forgot to turn it on."
"I what? Oh, wait, it's not on. There that's better. Now what were you saying?"
"Nothing, Grandpa, forget about it."
One day I asked my grandmother about Grandpa's failing memory and she laughed.
"His memory is fine," she said. "He just leaves that hearing aid off so I won't ask him to do anything. He knows I hate shouting from all over the house."
My grandmother had a wonderful term to describe my grandfather's condition. She used to call it "selective hearing."
--Parlette
