Gossip

As a child, were any of you made to watch Hee Haw?

Or, like me, did you make your child watch a few minutes of reruns on RFD-TV to expose them to classic and classy TV from the past?

And do you remember this song from the show?

"Now, we’re not ones to go ’round spreadin’ rumors
Why, really we’re just not the gossipy kind
No, you’ll never hear one of us repeating gossip
So you’d better be sure and listen close the first time!"

We often laugh about gossip, but it really is a dangerous and usually divisive practice. Here are a couple of proverbs that speak about it (26:20 & 16:28).

Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down.

A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends.

I can participate by speaking it and/or listening to it. Which is worse?