Wisdom Cries...Hold your peace

Proverbs 17:28  Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Mark Twain has been attributed with this quotable quote.

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”

That sounds pretty close to what we are reading here in the Bible. Some of you have made the pursuit of wisdom a true journey in your life and I thank you. Some of you won't even give it a shot. Well here is a tidbit to help those of you who believe wisdom is neither attainable or worth it. What's great is that if you can find it in yourself to just follow this one simple thought, you have taken a step in right direction and started this journey to a life of wisdom. 

It amazes me how folks think so much of themselves that, in their estimation, everyone else must think that much of them as well. We think that because it is our idea, it must be a good idea. Because it is my way, it must be the right way. Now as much as we both want to be treated that way, it just isn't true, nor is it practical. Maybe, just maybe, we should throttle back on the speaking and focus a bit more on listening. Most of you have probably never seen the telephone that I grew up with, but the end that you spoke into had 7 little holes to speak into and the listening end had something like 20. Let's learn from that and spend more time listening than speaking.