Gossip

Proverbs 26:20. 
Fire goes out without wood, and quarrels disappear when gossip stops. (NLT) 

I wish I could say I am not one to gossip. But I guess I am. We just cannot seem to keep our nose out of others business. Of course everyone wants to tell us their business. That is not gossip. When we tell others about what they told us it becomes gossip.

Often we might meddle just to get the latest scoop on what is happening. Then we tell others what we heard and that is gossip.

Fact is, it is easier to deal with everyone elses stuff than to deal with our own. It is easy to understand their problems. We even have answers for them. We can tell them exactly why they are in the middle of their mess and what they have to do to fix it. This probably is because of all the movies and television we have watched. Isn't that where we get to be detectives and psychologists?

They ought to give a degree for the amount of crime shows we have digested. Go to college and earn an AS, BS, or PHD. Watch enough television and earn a TV degree.

It is often the meddling and resultant gossip that causes quarrels among family members and friends. If we could just stop the gossip, the quarrels will disappear.