Most of my life I have discounted the importance of memorizing anything. I wasn't particularly "good at it" and thus it required a lot of work for me. Now, this always strikes me as strange because I do seem to have a fairly good memory when it comes to several things, but as far as memorizing speeches, songs, bible verses, etc. I am unpracticed and thus unskilled.
Most of my life I have had a Bible readily availble, and more recently I have had the Internet at my fingertips so I could look up any verse or song that I wanted to know.
My Southwestern experience changed all of that.
My attitude toward memorization is completely different now. Suddenly I find myself wishing I had better committed myself to knowing songs that I'd like to sing while on the bookfield, Bible verses I'd like to recite, and... my sales talk, which I still don't know all that well.
Every time I sit down at a house I get all the points across, and I end up talking to the people like they are people instead of reciting the sales talk. Actually, I do end up doing a bit of both, which is good, because when you are reciting your mind is totally free to think and make observations about the customer. When you recite you are relaxed and free to listen more. It is such a great thing to have going for you.
After this summer, I intend to begin committing songs and specific Bible verses to memory every week. I think that this will be challenging for me at first, but I truly believe that it will be worthwhile the next time I don't have my Bible readily available.
Posted by David at July 26, 2004 10:47 AMAwesome!
Posted by: Jelly Bean at July 27, 2004 02:42 PMVery smart dear and I must say - I will be quite pleased when you can sing along with me!
Posted by: Joy at July 30, 2004 11:39 PM