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Fools Play with Fire

Avoiding drama doesn’t mean we never say tough things, it means we don’t add theatrics. It also means that we say tough things to the person, not about the person. Being kind to someone’s face doesn’t always equal love, and saying difficult things to someone’s face doesn’t always equal not love. On the other hand, whisperers […]

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Whisperers Eat Fires

There’s a reason we don’t put out fires: we love the action. The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body. Proverbs 26:22 We don’t extinguish drama because we enjoy it. We’re not built to let fires die out. We are fire […]

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Quarrelers Inflame Fires

Not only do whisperers fuel drama as we saw in verse 20, quarrelers also play a large roll in drama. As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. Proverbs 26:21 The first half of the proverb in verse 21 provides the comparison, As charcoal to hot […]

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Whisperers Feed Fires

Starting a fire requires fuel and something to ignite the fuel.1 In particular, fires need heat, fuel and oxygen. Remove any of those three ingredients and no fire will burn. When it comes to the fire of drama, whisperers are the fuel. For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there […]

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Whispers and Flames

Fire scares me; it has for as long as I can remember. For most of my life I refused to light a match unless it was one of those 10” fireplace matches. Only during the last five years or so have I learned how to strike a match from a matchbook by folding over the […]

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