Not All Talk

Sometimes people will say stuff about other people "talking a good game," and sometimes people are concerned about their own ability to deliver on promises and their professed ideals.  And avoiding hypocrisy can actually become a tormenting obsession for people who are trying to live up to high standards.  But I have thought sometimes that maybe some of the people who seem to be all talk might actually have some kind of communication gift and for them to actually do what they believe in would mean being a speaker of some kind and focusing their energy and strength on talking or writing and being the people to say all the stuff that might be hard to do.  Maybe for some people talking the talk is also the walk that is expected of them.  And maybe that is why preachers get blamed for hypocrisy so often.  Maybe their job really is to tell everyone else what to do and people should be more understanding that for them, speaking is action.