Comments on: A time to zip the lip

By: caroline@CarolineCollie

caroline@CarolineCollie — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:37:29 +0000

Amen and thank you!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:44:18 +0000

Oh this is good! /thank you for sharing this so eloquently. Cute photo too. love that little plane zipper pull. Kelly

By: Ashleigh (Heart and Home)

Ashleigh (Heart and Home) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:15:20 +0000

Having the grace to just… listen. So important, and so lacking. Especially in me.

SIGH.

Must quiet my lips, my heart. And simply listen.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:51:51 +0000

Great post. Too many times I’ve talked when it’s the last thing I should have done and not listened when it was the only thing I should have done. Thanks for sharing your need to zip the lip like the rest of us.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:09:04 +0000

This one is like an arrow through the heart. I have done the same thing so many times. Just the other day I prayed and asked the Father to put a guard on my tongue as we drove to visit family. I am forever interrupting and missing the whole thought someone was trying to convey. Or I jabber on trying to fill any little silence, lest we all feel uncomfortable.
I am going to ask the Lord daily for help with this. I love what you had to say.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:15:58 +0000

A great post. Quieten the mind xx

By: Tracey

Tracey — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:07:23 +0000

Whew! That was a close one–I wonder how many times I have been filling the quiet and applied the brakes to my chatter too late?

By: TexasRed

TexasRed — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:00:08 +0000

Great reminder!

By: Tammy

Tammy — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:06:39 +0000

This is something we all struggle with. The “being still “. I have noticed that complete strangers come up to talk to me; much to my consternation as I am fairly shy & not particularly charismatic (unless they sense something different about me – God). But then, God uses me to brighten their day, lighten their burden, or just let them know someone will listen. Blesses us both!!

Great post.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:47:46 +0000

I love your extrovertedness… sometimes it gets quiet up in my brain … toooo quiet

though, God has taken me through seasons where He has reminded me of the importance of silence… He brought me back to this scripture:

Job 13:5 “If only you would be alltogether silent. For you, that would be wisdom.”