A man of few words

I attended the Q & A session.  When Denver answered the first question, I realized that he was a man of few words.  Yet, his words and the way he said them carried a lot of weight.  I was reminded of a comment people made about Jesus’ speech, “He spoke as one with authority, unlike their leaders.”  In my lifetime (I am fifty) I have know only a few people who were people of few words.  When they spoke, everyone was quiet and listened.  You could hear the wisdom that had come from years of experience, a mix of happy and sad, joyful and painful times.   My father was such a man.  I was blessed to hear Denver answer a question about forgiving people who had hurt him by saying “If you do not forgive, you will not be forgiven.”  There was anticipative silence, to which Denver replied, “That is all there is to that answer.”  We live in a world full of inequity,  greed, hunger, sickness, pain and death which produces vexing questions, but the best answers come from people of few words.