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In a spiritual desert

July 23, 2008

I am in one right now. And you know how I can tell?

My mouth.

I have always had a big mouth and have often had to repair relationships with people because I had my face-hole filter turned off. But Jesus knew what he was talking about in Matt 12:34 and Luke 6:45 when he said that “out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.”

I have been saying stupid things lately. Not mean or opinionated things, but just dumb, junior high-ish humor that is crass and useless. I can only attribute it to the fact that I have been lax on spiritual discipline lately. My heart is harder than usual and so crap proceeds from it through my mouth and into the world.

In the last few days I have had several moments where I have said to myself, “I CAN’T believe I just said that… what an idiot!” Usually I say dumb things to get a laugh from people, but it is not worth it.

I wish I could be one of those guys who only has encouraging, useful, and profound things to say. I have always struggled with the slow to speak thing that Jesus’ half-bro talked about.

Written by Nick · Filed Under General, Life 

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5 Responses to “In a spiritual desert”

  1. keith Jones on July 23rd, 2008 1:10 pm

    “face-hole filter”, classic, I haven’t heard that one before.

    I’ve fired off a few CLEs in my time (Career Limiting Emails).

    Don’t type angry.

    Now I usually take a walk before I type… well accept on blogs :)

  2. Nick on July 23rd, 2008 1:43 pm

    Thanks Keith… I am going to add CLE to my Lexicon. I am pretty good about thinking before I type because what you write has tendency to stay on record and can come up to bite you later. Its the verbally immature things that I seem to struggle with more.

    BTW, next time you see me at church, intro yourself. I too, will keep a look out for the man with the enormous head.:)

  3. Jason Williams on July 23rd, 2008 7:39 pm

    Yeah, I’m guilty of this as well bro…only I feel like it’s mostly to Jess. Sometimes I just lack patience and grace at times when she/other people need it the most.

    I’m always trying to be aware of that!

  4. chris on July 24th, 2008 12:02 pm

    I’m with you, brotherman. Got to figure this whole spiritual life thing out. The rabbit hole goes pretty deep.

    I had to laugh last night while watching the first few minutes of Everybody Loves Raymond.

    Raymond says such and such stupid things to his wife
    Wife walks out of the room in a huff
    Raymond: (to toddler daughter) You heard Daddy talking, why didn’t you try to stop him?”

  5. Brian Wurzell on July 25th, 2008 11:25 pm

    it’s cool bro. i forgive you for the jackass comment. :)

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