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\u201cJust as being too busy gives you nightmares, so being a fool makes you a blabbermouth.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Ecclesiastes 5:3 (TLB)<\/p>\n

Who, Me?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I glanced out my kitchen window just in time to see a pair of redheaded woodpeckers on the trunk of an oak tree. If you\u2019ve ever been around woodpeckers, you know that it\u2019s often their squawking chatter that first gets your attention. They can be LOUD!<\/p>\n

As I looked closer, I could tell they were a pair, male and female, one with a bright red head and the other with the duller red, characteristic of the female of the species. They were having the time of their lives, racing up and down and all around the trunk of the tree, when I realized it was the female who was doing \u201call\u00a0<\/em>the talkin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

At one point, they were beak to beak, and she was still going for it. I had to laugh at her persistence to get her point across. What was she saying anyway? \u201cHarry, you forgot to put a new twig in the nest? When ya\u2019 gonna do it, huh?\u201d Or, \u201cReally, dear, your conduct is for the birds!\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve read the research and heard teachings that suggest that generally, with humans, it\u2019s the female who has the more developed language center of the brain, so we tend to be the more verbal in a marriage (those poor, poor fellows). Hey, we\u2019ve got a lot to say, and usually not enough time to say it. Sometimes we have to talk fast, to get it all said! Of course, our Creator has endowed men with many gifts that we women just don\u2019t have! He made us to complement each other in so many ways. Can you imagine the noise in our world if we ALL had the Gift of Gab?<\/p>\n

But really, after many years of marriage, I\u2019ve come to recognize that glazed over look that comes over my husband\u2019s face as I relate twelve things at once. He really doesn\u2019t digest all that fast and furious info, so he just zones out and goes to his happy place. Now, I can choose to get annoyed at this (and launch into verbal overdrive), or perhaps rethink my strategy. Could I have pared that down a bit into bite-size pieces? Could I c-h-o-o-s-e my words more carefully? Probably so.<\/p>\n

\u201cDear Lord, we sure don\u2019t want to be like that person described in Ecclesiastes who \u201c\u2026being a fool made her\/him a blabbermouth.\u201d Please help us to be wise stewards of these amazing instruments\u2014our mouths. Amen!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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