Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, in our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

So today I want to talk to you about something we all have, we all sort of don't always like from others,

and we all probably need to do a better job of managing at times.

I have any idea what I'm talking about? Stick around and we'll get into it because I have some

feelings about this. We're talking opinions today. We all have them. We all kind of get tired of

them from others, if we're honest,

and we all could probably use some help in figuring out when to give them and when to keep them

to ourselves. I came up with the idea for this show after being on social media, which, by the way,

gives me a lot of great topic ideas for this show. Twitter is actually the best place for me

to get my material, but I noticed something interesting and I want to see if you

relate or agree or even disagree with me, which by the way is fine. Someone had posted something on

their page wall, wherever it was, I can't even remember where I was actually when I saw it.

And it wasn't super controversial like about politics or anything, but it really was just an

inspirational something that obviously

someone did not agree with that read it. Surprising, right? So that person proceeded, the person

that read it, proceeded to then write their opinion and go into this long comment to disagree

with them. And it just hit me, why do people feel like they need to say

something so often, often about something that is really kind of benign? I mean, this was not

this commenter's wall or social media space. It was someone else's. The person wasn't asking them to enter the conversation.

In fact, it really wasn't a conversation at all. It was the person simply saying, hey, this is how I feel

about something I want to share with you. It was very simple. It was a very sort of benign statement

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