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“Habona-Grits Habona-Hits”. Not Hebrew. My son’s name for this large pipe-like
\ncontraption which is nestled in the corner of our co-op’s garage. For
\nthe longest I didn’t have the foggiest clue why he would start singing
\nthose words when we went down there but when I finally figured out what
\nHa-BAH-na GRITS \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Ha-BAH-na-HITS was I was still puzzled.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I’ve stricken the possibility that he’s referring to something on tv.
\nThe rhyming of Grits and Hits is just way too intelligent (and odd) for
\nanything on tv. The usual suspects came to my mind, and I’m thinking
\nDr. Seuss has some funky contraptions with rhyming names and since he
\nlikes Grits and Hitting, he might’ve decided to dub the contraption a
\nDr. Seuss creation. It really does look like a funky mix of Sylvester
\nMcMonkey McBean’s fix-it machine (for the Sneetches<\/a> who wanted stars
\nupon thars) and the Audio-Telly-o-Tally-o Count (which plops and drops
\nlittle balls in a cup so that we can know who is asleep<\/a> and who is
\nstill up).<\/p>\n

It got me thinking about language again<\/a>. In that post I was talking
\nabout the importance in speaking the tongue of the audience—but now I
\nwant to focus on how language is more than just tongues. You married
\nfolk know what I’m talking about.<\/p>\n

There you are, your wife says “I’m so tired of dishes” and you grunt in
\nacknowledgment. She said words that you can hear and understand
\nlinguistically, but you didn’t get what she was saying at all. Or a kid
\nsays “I’m so bored” when he has a room full of toys and things….Mom
\nlooks at him and starts asking him which toy should he play with. Same
\nwords—way different language.<\/p>\n

Anytime we have discussion with other people, we find out how different
\ntheir language is. Ideas clashing, concepts crossing over, jokes flying
\nright over a head—it happens all the time. Sometimes there are people
\nwho have such a unique personal language that common things go right by
\nthem because they’re analyzing it.<\/p>\n

I gotta admit, that I play around with this stuff. I often say things
\nto my friends in different ways trying to find out what exactly is the
\nway they hear what I’m saying better. It’s interesting that an open
\nhomosexual pseudo-Christian co-worker friend of mine easily grasps what
\nI’m saying while actual professing believers might miss the point
\ncompletely. It’s not that the concept is hard, it’s that somewhere
\nalong the line (maybe it’s where we’ve grown up and stuff) language
\ndiverged.<\/p>\n

As a person responsible for teaching others the Scriptures, I often
\nneed an in-road into the audience’s language. This becomes all the
\nharder when the audience is older. Older folk don’t speak my language
\nand have a hard time coming to terms with it. I have to speak to them
\nwith respect and with extreme patience (very, very difficult for me).
\nThe younger folk don’t mind playful disrespect but if they feel that
\ndisrespect crossover into actual disrespect, they feel marginalized and
\nsquashed—very tough line to walk if one dares to walk it.<\/p>\n

Paul’s God given wisdom comes to the fore again. Don’t rebuke older
\nmen—appeal to them like fathers. Speak to older women as mothers. Speak
\nto the younger men as brothers—you can joke around with some of them,
\nbut realize you guys are basically siblings. Speak to the younger women
\nas sisters with respect and purity (1 Tim 5:1-2).<\/p>\n

Timothy had a tough job and most of the time he wouldn’t be able to
\nmold the audience to be able-bodied listeners and students. So much so,
\nthat he didn’t much enjoy those encounters—feeling those stomach acids
\nstart up again.<\/p>\n

Paul’s words were sound: In any given situation when an encounter
\nbetween yourself and another person is going to occur, throw out all
\nthat thinking of how They should respond. Instead, focus on how you
\npresent and teach. It’s probably easier to mold yourself than the other
\nperson—so do it. In so doing, you work towards becoming a (wo) Man of
\nGod (2 Tim 3:10-17). You take responsibility for what you’re saying,
\nand how you present it, because as a teacher your judgment is stricter
\n(James 3:1).<\/p>\n

So in your teaching, or exhortations, or personal discipleship or
\nconversations of correction or with your spouses—remember that they
\nspeak another language even though they speak your tongue. Habona
\nGrits, Habona Hits means nothing until you dig in and try to figure it
\nout. Learn that language…not to manipulate…but to constantly act out in
\nlove towards each other.<\/p>\n

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