How do you speak hope to one who's addicted to drugs? With his palm in chin, foreign to any sense of hope, disguised by the illusion that everything is over! Why don't you try irrestible love? Or better still why don't you just shut up and listen.
How do you speak love to the widow that's lost her two kids as well? Absent minded and eaten her lonely bread, she cannot even begin to fathom a loving God. Why don't you preach hope for a brighter day? Sometimes we just have to sit in silence to better hear the whispering heart of those who are hurting?
And when it becomes necessary to speak, really necessary; let's take heed from the ancient prophet's words "The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned." To speak the right words we need first to listen!
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