If you have a pattern of talking too much and not listening well, you violate intimacy, community and depth of relationship. It’s a problem that needs to be fixed. Listening is the language of love.

We have the ability to plant seeds in others’ lives; seeds that can bear fruit for the kingdom or negative seeds that can crush spirits.

Far too many of us live in what some people call “crisis mode living.”

Making the most of our experiences means that we don’t allow them to be wasted, but that we share them with others to instruct and to build up.