“Make Your Words Count”
May 29, 2025
There once was a monk who took a vow of silence but was permitted to speak two words every ten years. When the first decade was up, the monk said, “Food bad”. Then ten years later, he said, “Bed hard.” And then at the end of the third decade he said, “I quit”. The abbot said to the monk, “I am not surprised you quit because all you ever did was complain!”
Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived,…