What did you say? I can't hear you...

To this day I still can not fathom how insensitive and arrogant some people behave to those who can not hear or hear well. 

Our world is full of people losing their hearing. Unfortunately we know people who continue to be 

rude

hurtful

impolite

alienting

cruel

       

offensive

                                            uncaring

                                            uncharitable.

Most of these people claim Jesus' Name! and yet they mock and degrade those who have hearing loss.

Why does this happen?!

Where are their manners?!

Why don't they have proper decorum?!

Where is their compassion and understanding?!

Psalm 51:17

..."The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;

A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise."...

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It is very true that those who can not hear well - even with hearing aids - do often ask to have words repeated, for something to be explained again, or they may interpret your words incorrectly. 

A solution:

Please try to understand what their world is like. 

Don't be indifferent.

Don't be discouraging.

Do practice understanding.

Do practice compassion and patience.

2 Corinthians 1:3-7

..."Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

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What did I say? I will gladly repeat it for you :o)

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