Speaking

     Yesterday evening, the local high school debate club put on a production entitled "Be the Music". The idea was Christians are supposed to be the music in the world like there is music in the background of a movie. Aside from needing someone to teach them how to hold a mic and a few other sound issues they did a good job. I knew the members who wrote the skits and some of the monologues, they have talent. I even turned my cell phone to silent before the performance, something which I only do once or twice a year. Those who can inspire and move others with nothing but words, have the potential to be even more destructive than an atomic bomb, or to usher in a new age of peace. God protect us from the first and send us the latter.
     I choose not to speak more often than I choose to speak. Most sayings of the wise, or those considered to be wise, urge the reader to be slow to speak. I am not the best conversationalist, for I often am too slow to speak. I would like to leave you with this thought for the speaker. A man named Alexander Gregg once said, "There are three things to aim at in public speaking; first to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers."
     For the readers who do not desire to stand before the multitudes, I would give this quote from Voltaire, "There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable."
     Do you speak sometimes, too quickly? Are you often too afraid to speak up? I would remind everyone that you don't have to deceive or be silent. There is a third option, to speak brave and boldly for that which you know to be true.