{"id":933,"date":"2010-10-25T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dadcents.com\/?p=933"},"modified":"2010-10-26T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T16:18:10","slug":"10252010-proverbs-2511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/2010\/10\/10252010-proverbs-2511\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/25\/2010 – Proverbs 25:11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proverbs Post #5-<\/p>\n

Today I was reading in chapter 25, no rx<\/a> and verse 11 struck me today.\u00a0 It says:<\/p>\n

25:11<\/strong> Like apples of gold in settings of silver,<\/p>\n

so is a word skillfully spoken.<\/p>\n

I really enjoy listening to speakers who can communicate their thoughts in a way that I not only hear but truly understand their meaning. \u00a0Few of us have this gift but still experience good and poor communication on a regular basis.\u00a0 We communicate most of the day with our family, co workers, friends or employees at our favorite establishments.<\/p>\n

Have you ever heard that you can only control what you say and not how anyone hears or understands what you say?\u00a0 I have found my poor communication to be the single greatest cause of headache in my life. I cannot or do not ask for help.\u00a0 I give bad instructions.\u00a0 I am upset when I respond!\u00a0 The list can go on and on but the constant in every situation is my ability to communicate.<\/p>\n

On the other hand I have several friends who are master communicators.\u00a0 Not only can they help you understand but a tremendously important part of the skillfully spoken word is listening.\u00a0 They have the ability to hear what you are saying, listen to your tone, watch your body language to help really hear your communication.\u00a0 After our conversation, I regularly have the thought, “They really get me.”<\/p>\n

How well to you listen in order to speak skillfully?<\/p>\n

I want to challenge you to take up reading the Proverb of the day and the entire chapter as well.\u00a0 Lord, please help each one of us to keep our focus on things above and not the things of this earth.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

I am using the Net Bible<\/a> to quote from for these posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proverbs Post #5- Today I was reading in chapter 25, no rx and verse 11 struck me today.\u00a0 It says: 25:11 Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken. I really enjoy listening to speakers who can communicate their thoughts in a way that I not only hear but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[28,26,27],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs-2","tag-communicating","tag-skillful","tag-speaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dadcents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}