Sometimes words are not enough !

You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth.

Bible text: My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. (James 1:19)

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner writes in When All You?ve Ever Wanted Isn't Enough:

"A business associate of my father's died under particularly tragic circumstances, and I accompanied my father to the funeral. The man?s widow and children were surrounded by clergy and psychiatrists trying to ease their grief and make them feel better. They knew all the right words, but nothing helped. They were beyond being comforted. The widow kept saying, 'You?re right, I know you're right, but it doesn't make any difference.' Then a man walked in, a big burley man in his eighties who was a legend in the toy and game industry. He had come to this country illiterate and penniless and had built up an immensely successful company. He was known as a hard bargainer, a ruthless competitor. Despite his success, he had never learned to read or write?.he had been sick recently, and his face and his walking showed it. However, he walked over to the widow and started to cry, she cried with him, and you could feel the atmosphere in the room change. This man who had never read a book in his life spoke the language of the heart and held the key that opened the gates of solace where learned doctors and clergy could not."