September Prayers | On Cultivating Conversation

“Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person. ”

— Colossians 4:6

DEAR FRIENDS,

We’re entering into a month of many conversations. Ones with teachers, co-workers, neighbors, friends - many new, some old. Our theme at TH for this year is “Cultivating Conversations.” What would it look like to let our speech be filled with grace as though seasoned with salt? Perhaps some of the toxic polarizations would have less of a strangle-hold and we’d see one another in God’s light.

-Christy Yates

John O’Donohue

“When is the last time that you had a great conversation? A conversation which wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture. But when had you last a great conversation in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you thought you had lost and a sense of an event of a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different plain, and then fourthly, a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks afterwards.”

- from his interview with Krista Tippett, On Being

While not specifically Christian, the conversations below are as inspirational as they are healing. Enjoy especially this one between Rev. Michael Curry of the Episcopal Church and Dr. Russell Moore, now editor of Christanity Today.