"Between the Lines"

Last night, my wife and I were watching one of the hallmark specials about the prairie family struggling to survive the dust storms. This story stared with an ad written by a widow from the west, looking for a new wife that was answered from a women living in Maine. There cortshiped started with a series of letters that pulled her west.

Some time later, in a discussion with her new ten year old daughter, who is a budding writer her self, asked, “His Daddy a good writer’? To which this new mother says, “not really, but it’s what he says between the lines that I love”.

Reading between the lines is a figure of speech. Attending to the empty spaces between the lines of print refers to what is left unsaid, to the values and assumptions that are an important dimension of what we read.

When it comes to others, what kind of reading “Between the lines” do we do? I know at times, the tension is between a wonderful love story filled with life and vitality, and a blood filled horror story.

What about you, what do you see “between the lines”?

For me, a person that is called to bring change to the lives of the people I meet and have influence over, I have to see hope and opportunity as I read “between the lines” of peoples lives.

What about you? What are you reading “Between the Lines?”

Have a Great Day

David