Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

I must admit something to all of you.  I have a hearing problem.  It is an issue I really don’t want to face, but I am going to have to deal with it.  I know I must address it because, at times, I misunderstand what people are saying.  At times, I misunderstand what my husband says, what Dorothy says, and probably what some of you say if you speak rather softly.  And, if I misunderstand you at times, I am sorry.  Anyway, my point in telling you this today is not so much about my hearing issue as it is about misunderstanding.  I think for all of us, the reality is that at some point in time we have been misunderstood or, we have misunderstood someone else.  As David Lose says, “To be…is to be misunderstood.”  In today’s gospel reading we hear Jesus share this little parable about children playing in the market place, and they are misunderstood.  The children play a glad, happy song for their friends, but no one dances.  Then, they play a sad, mournful dirge, but no one mourns or weeps.  Jesus goes on to say, t