Which verse, that is. I have two verses for today and they don’t particularly relate to each other.

“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet” (Proverbs 27:7).

I thought of people who get lots of positive, loving attention. Often they don’t realize what they have.

On the other hand, someone who gets very little of that kind of attention, craves any kind of attention. So much so that someone else’s anger toward them is “sweet” because at least that person is giving them some attention. Sad. No, terribly sad! Oh, please, let me be more sensitive to the positive attention-needs of those around me!

Then there’s this verse:

“My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me” (Proverbs 27:11).

As a son, I didn’t appreciate the truth in that verse soon enough. Though I’ve been a grandfather over three years now, I still want to be a son that makes glad the heart of my parents, giving them an answer for those who might reproach them.