"Do you say what you mean?"

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Have you ever spoken a word to someone and discovered that the word meant one thing to you and something else to the other person? Let me give you an example.

Recently a fourth grader was doing her homework. She had just come from her ballet class, still dressed in her leotard, and was working on the definition of the word, "routine." I overheard her talking with her mom about it. So I’m thinking about how some people I coach prefer a routine instead of a schedule, a prescribed method of doing something as opposed to a time-driven schedule. Evidently the mom is as well since she describes something similar.

Well, the little girl says, "No mom, this is a dance word."

"How’s that?," the mom says.

"You know, Mom," the little girl says, "like a dance routine."

Amazing, isn’t it, how you can use the same word as someone else and you’re thinking of something different? The great thing about praying to God is God knows how you use words and what you mean. So pray without worrying about being misunderstood. Then listen to life and make a life, not just a living.

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