No telling what you might hear

Frederick Buechner writes:" When a minister reads out of the bible, I am sure that at least nine out of the ten people who happen to be listening at all hear not what is really being read but only what they expect to hear read. And I think what most people expect to hear read from the bible is an edifying story, an uplifting thought, a moral lesson---something elevating, obvious, and boring. So that is exactly what very often they do hear. Only that is too bad because if you really listen---and maybe you have to forget that it is the bible being read and a minister who is reading it--there is no telling what you might hear!