Listening

Title: Listening
Category: Pastoral Issues
Subject: Listening
Someone once wrote, "I know you believe you understand what you think I said,
but I am not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant." --Anon

Note the following: "[Addison Leitch] used to say that a speaker has four speeches: the one he prepares, the one he actually delivers, the one the audience thinks it heard, and the one that gets reported in the newspapers the next day-and there isn't necessarily any similarity between them."