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Have you ever \u201clet the cat out of the bag\u201d or \u201cput your foot in your mouth\u201d or, quite frankly, just talked too much? I have. I\u2019ve slipped up trying to put on a surprise party or in keeping some other kind of secret. I pray this often: \u201cSet a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!\u201d Psalm 141:3<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll never forget what an avid conversationalist my husband was. He spoke with great fervor in giving his best motivational pitch to someone needing counsel or encouragement. And when he spoke, people listened because his words were filled with such great wisdom. In the latter part of his days on this earth, however, his words were few, but still when he spoke \u2013 it was always with words that mattered. For example, the day when our daughter, Staci, his nurse and I were in the room with him, and he said, \u201cI love you so much my precious darling\u201d. I said, \u201cWho are you talking to, Staci or me?\u201d He said, \u201cBoth of you\u201d! His nurse said, \u201cHe\u2019s still got it!\u201d Nothing earth shaking or world changing, but being on purpose with what he said,. <\/p>\n

Then there was the morning that I saw his eyes closed, then he’d open them, and have a big smile on his face. That morning, I thought it was time for a \u201cheart-to-heart\u201d talk \u2013 just to see what he might be thinking. I asked him, \u201cIs God saying something to you?” No reply. Then I asked, \u201cDo you want to quit all this, and just go see your mansion in heaven? I will be okay with whatever you want. Or if you want to keep fighting, and if God wants us to travel around the world giving witness to our faith and how God healed you, then I\u2019m ready to fight on with you! So what\u2019s God telling you, my Love?\u201d He opened his eyes, without giving a second thought, and with his convincing authority said, \u201cYOU TALK TOO MUCH!!\u201d <\/p>\n

I laughed at his remark then, and I smile today as I type this because it renews the importance of letting my two ears do more listening, while my one mouth does less speaking. Another important verse is Proverbs 21:23 \u201cWhoever keeps his mouth and his tongue, keeps himself out of trouble. I sure do want to stay out of trouble, and I sure do want my words to be few, and when I speak, I sure do want my words to count \u2013 words of encouragement, hope and joy! How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever \u201clet the cat out of the bag\u201d or \u201cput your foot in your mouth\u201d or, quite frankly, just talked too much? I have. I\u2019ve slipped up trying to put on a surprise party or in keeping some other kind of secret. I pray this often: \u201cSet a guard, O Lord, over my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11851,11852,11853,8381,9827,9828,11854,7074],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cat-out-of-the-bag","tag-fight-on","tag-foot-in-the-mouth","tag-healed","tag-proverbs-2123","tag-psalm-1413","tag-words-count","tag-you-talk-too-much"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}