The great calling.

Life teaches us that there are appropriate times to talk, appropriate times to listen, and inevitably, appropriate times to be quiet. That spilling forth our ideas out of turn is frowned upon. That interrupting is rude. That breaking the silence is awkward. That talking too fast is hard to follow. That speaking too loud can be offensive.

Life is full of unspoken rules. But where do we learn that our ideas don't matter? Along the road, who plants the seed that our opinions aren't valued?

Jude 1:10

Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.