Every Witness is on the lookout for gestures to spice up a talk.
The best gesture I have ever seen was given by a wiry birdlike brother who pointed out that, while Jehovah takes care of the birds and they need not be anxious, they also do not tilt back in their easy chairs. Birds are always working, he pointed out, and then with his own nose, rapid-pecked at the podium as though pecking for seed!
I can also picture a 'gesture' to use if you were trying to convey the overwhelming and unsuspected power of sexual attraction to inexperienced young people who chafe at whatever restrictions their parents may impose. I haven't used it yet, but I will.
I would be as if in outer space, slowly and leisurely approaching a black hole, so as to casually look into it. It would seem so enjoyable, until I suddenly yanked myself by the tie into the microphone.
I mean, it's powerful stuff, that sexual attraction. One of the five things that Solomon couldn't figure out. (Actually, he didn't learn from experience much did he?)
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