Gossip

I won't tell you where I was (so as not to be guilty of what I'm about to express annoyance over), but I spent the early portion of my morning being forced to listen to the most irritating gossip. Two ladies spent the better part of a half hour yapping back and forth about everyone under the sun. At first I was amused because they barely took a breath and the one lady kept saying "uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh" in rapid fire succession as the other lady spoke. But after a few minutes, it started giving me a headache.

I know that we're all guilty of gossip from time to time, but I have come to believe that it is the lowest and most brainless form of communication.

"A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much." Proverbs 20:19

"Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil;..." Romans 1:28-30a