I received a word from God a few days ago. Although delivered in the form of an Internet message from my uncle, the timing was God-driven.Albert Knudson, a preacher from the Methodist tradition is credited with this quote: "There are two classes of preachers--the good preachers who have something to say, and the poor preachers who have to say something."
Everyone would probably agree except those who never endured an episode of pastoral verbal proliferation. I am an offender. Hopefully most of my oratorical excesses are in the past. In my defense, it is not only preachers who occasionally speak while having nothing to say.
Almost everyone is guilty. Preachers, politicians, coffee-klatch wise men, and casual conversationalists alike have occasionally displaced silence with drivel. Most of us are convinced that our audience needs more verbiage, much like a desert hiker might need another drink of water.
"Quick to listen, slow to speak" is sound advice (or possibly anti-sound advice) better practiced than discussed. In deference to Mr. Knudson and following the example of Forest Gump, that's all I've got to say about that.
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