Silence
I (Chip) am usually very quiet. My personality or disposition often results in people asking me, "Are you okay?" 90 percent of the time, I am doing well; just thinking and observing - listening . When I am around people I am really comfortable with, however, I can get fairly loud (at least to my ears) and verbose. Sometimes I get to the end of a night with friends and realize how much I spoke and how little it seems I listened. I am usually hit with regret. Not that I said the wrong thing, but that I may have missed a moment - a profound or needed comment or statement from someone else in the midst of my continuous monologue. . . I will get back to this shortly. Last weekend, I traveled to Lancaster, PA with some of the Shiloh Place team to lead worship for the Heart of Sonship Encounter at Sanctuary Vineyard Church. The first night as I was leading (sort of from the hip with a song pool, but no real planned order other than the first song), I reached a few poin...