A father was reading the paper and decided to share what he'd been reading with his teenage son. The article claimed that children today suffered from a lack of attention and which caused low educational achievements at school. Furthermore, the article said that children today are lazy, have little concentration and barely possess any listening skills at all. When he was finished the father asked, "Well, son what do you think about that study."

The boy halfheartedly lifted his head and said, "What was that again, Dad?" (1)

Sometimes we don't listen, do we? We do that with our parents and our spouse and our children. Sometimes we do that to God and Jesus, our Shepherd, too. Sometimes we're just content to be in the presence of the Shepherd. And that's OK. Sometimes. But sometimes we get s…