{"id":2211,"date":"2007-03-09T11:37:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2007-03-09T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T17:37:02","slug":"dealing-with-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/dealing-with-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with humans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Conner<\/b> writes for Relevant Magazine about a lesson he was taught in the grocery check out line about relationships and dealings with humans.<\/p>\n

I mentioned the self-checkout lines, asking when they planned on getting them fixed and that I missed them, as if they were some ex-girlfriend who had left me recently. The guy in front of me shrugged and turned and simply said, “I prefer to deal with humans.”
\nWe all have a trade or vocation. I am a pastor. My currency is relationships. My clientele is humanity. Business is good, so to speak, when I am highly involved with the lives of the people around me. And it was the unkempt, lazy-eyed man in front of me who is better at my job than I am.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

E-mail and text messaging are my preferred means of communication. They’re fast, they’re easy and they’re on my time schedule – not anyone else’s. But lately I’ve heard some backlash about text messaging from friends. They get annoyed by prayer requests sent over an electronic cell phone. I don’t think it’s the prayer request themselves – it’s the medium they’re conveyed. They’d rather me or someone else pick up the phone and share them. Why text messages differ from e-mails I’m not sure. But either way I still think there’s a desire to deal with humans than a cell phone, computer or other machine.
\nWe (I<\/em>) must work harder at building those relationships. We’ve got to get down and get our hands dirty in relationships. Stop and answer a phone call. Stop and visit a friend.
\nWhile our society has never been more connected we’ve also never been more disconnected on a personal level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Conner writes for Relevant Magazine about a lesson he was taught in the grocery check out line about relationships and dealings with humans. I mentioned the self-checkout lines, asking when they planned on getting them fixed and that I missed them, as if they were some ex-girlfriend who had left me recently. The guy … Continue reading Dealing with humans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,22,10,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-friends","category-mi-familia","category-reflections","category-techno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-zF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}