Flibbertigibbet – Undefeated – Power
The first three minutes confirmed my suspicions. I was standing face to face with a flibbertigibbet. Words continued to pour like water from his lips. The nonsense of the one-sided conversation pulled my eyelids down.
Boredom stood undefeated on the horizon.
I took a deep breath and shook my head. Stretching my eyes open wide as saucers I looked at the clock. Thirteen minutes and I still had no idea what he was trying to say.
I questioned myself, is this how I speak.
Do I cloak what I want to say with a plethora of descriptions until what I meant to communicate is lost?
It occurred to me in that moment as I was drowning in a sea of vocabulary that fewer words hold more power.
I hope that it will be said of me one day that, “She didn’t say much, but when she did you listened. You knew it was going to be important.”
May our words be few and spoken with intention.
In grace and peace,
Sharon Rose
What has been your experience? I’d enjoy hearing from you.