"You don’t always listen when you should, do you?"

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A husband was looking through the paper when he read a study that said women use more words than men. He showed his wife the study results, all excited to prove to her that he had been right all along when he accused her of talking too much. The study results read, "Men use about 15,000 words per day, whereas women use about 30,000 words per day."

The wife read the results that her husband showed her, and thought for a while. Then finally she said to her husband, "It’s because we have to repeat everything we say."

And her husband said, "What?"

Whether you’re a woman or a man doesn’t matter because you don’t always listen like you should, do you? And that means somebody has to do more talking to get their point across. That somebody includes not only your spouse if you’re married, but God as well. Don’t you say, "What?" to God sometimes?

Avoid just talking to God. Ask God to talk to you. Say, "God, you talk first this morning" and listen to your life and maybe God can use fewer words.

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