It’s one of those days. You make a passionate speech. Then, your mood is dashed as the audience lobs contradiction and rebuttal. You walk away dejected.
Hours later the perfect counter-reply pops into your brain. You groan. Why in the world didn’t you think of that earlier??? You could just kick yourself in the butt.
Stop for a moment, and consider how many times this happened to you. Once? Twice? A dozen times?
People throw us zingers everyday. We deflate, especially when we fail to come up with a PROMPT defense.
Consider the following nasties that wreck our day:
“You’re late again. You don’t love me.”
“That’s lousy work; you’re no good.”
“Why are all you religious people so narrow minded?”
“If you love me you’ll have sex with me. Since you refuse, you don’t love me.”
Don’t you wish you had the perfect answers to these seemingly daunting questions?
As you read this and recall the countless frustrations you’ve faced, you naturally begin to wonder why there are some special people who always come up with...