“Merry Christmas!” is the Right Thing to Say
December 21, 2012
Have you ever shared a weighty matter of your heart with another person hoping they would say “just the right thing” to soothe your pain? I have from time to time and I have walked away, not necessarily with an antidote to my pain, but with the assurance that the listener “said all the right things” without really meaning the right thing. So I began to ponder, “What does ‘they said all the right things’ really mean?”
As is often the case, at the time I began…