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 FRIDAY, MAY 12

The Inaugural One Columbus Golf Tournament will be held today at Callaway Gardens under the leadership of Diamond Sports Marketing. We’ve got a sold out Tournament and there will be lots of prizes and lots of fun! We want to thank Diamond Sports Marketing for facilitating this inaugural event for One Columbus. See you there!

MONDAY, MAY 15

 

WTVM’s Monday night Newsleader 9 news includes an interview with Silvia Bunn, talking about the Mildred Terry Library (which used to be called the Colored Public Library) and its importance to our community.

 

TUESDAY, MAY 16

 Dialogue Group 0603  has been meeting at 5:30 PM in the North Wing of St. James AME Church on 6^th Avenue for several weeks. The May 16 meeting will welcome young adults (18-35) who are concerned with the challenges facing our elementary school youth “outside the text book.” You may want to make your contribution (or invite someone to join you) as they plan to make a difference in the community. Darlene Porter 706-596-5992 is the facilitator.

 

 

Here is another of Michael Josephson’s gems that is so appropriate for today’s world.

Respect Means Knowing When to Back Off 460.4

I`ve talked before about the ethical obligation to treat others with respect by attentive listening. Today, I want to talk about the flip-side of respect, the duty to back off and accept the fact that while others should listen to us, we can`t demand they agree with us.

Such unreasonable demands are especially prevalent where a person in a position of authority (like a boss or parent) lectures, criticizes, sermonizes or even berates an employee or child well past the point of legitimate communication. But it isn`t only people of authority who engage in bulldozer conversational tactics that seek to impose an idea on someone else.
         
The common thread in disrespectful communications is that they go beyond reasonable attempts to inform or even persuade. They become harangues. It`s as if the speaker is engaged in a campaign to beat us into submission rather than simply convey a point of view. So they pummel us with repetitive opinions, complaints or demands. And if we don`t give the desired response, the speaker simply restates the point more loudly or aggressively.
         
Telling one of these ardent opinonators that we understand their position, that we`ve really heard and considered what they had to say, rarely stops the onslaught because the only way some people will believe that we understand their point is if we agree with it. They can become so self-righteous that they truly believe that disagreement with them is proof of confusion, ignorance, stupidity or a closed mind.
         
No one has a right to impose his opinions on others or to demand that he be listened to until he is done. The moral obligation of respect requires that we learn when to back off just as we learn when to listen.

NEW GROUP BEING FORMED  One Columbus is seeking participants for a new Dialogue Group to begin in mid-May. Register on the website at www.onecolumbus.org or call Berrien Zettler for information. 706-324-6363

 

Schedule change

 

The One Columbus Community Prayer Breakfast has been rescheduled.

 

Check the website for details and read your Items Of Information for new time and date.