Traction

Have you ever attempted a conversation with someone and you could not seem to find traction? The conversation just stays hollow and doesn’t go anywhere, and it becomes awkward and forced. I have been there. And I have been on both sides of the conversation.

Yesterday it hit me. I was attempting to get a spiritual conversation going with some folks who should have had an interest in spiritual things…youth pastors. I kept hitting a wall. I seemed to just sit there and spin out trying to find some traction…nothing. Why? Was it me? Was it them?