Six-year-old boy’s advice on driving in winter weather goes viral

Oliver Davis is a six-year-old Kansas boy with an important message for driving in winter weather: “Slow down! That’s it, that’s all you need to do!” He adds this advice: “You can avoid a cranky trooper by slowing down.” His video has now gone viral.

Meanwhile, media experts are highlighting Billy Graham’s pioneering use of radio, television, satellites, and the Internet to spread the gospel. On a more secular note, Warren Buffett praised Apple in an interview yesterday and the company’s shares rose to a near-record high.

What do Oliver Davis, Billy Graham, and Warren Buffett have in common? They illustrate the fact that a single voice can touch the world. But before you and I seek to follow their example, there’s a voice we need to hear.

The seven “love languages” of God

A dear friend met with me recently for lunch. Beforehand, he asked the Lord if there was something he should do for me. The Father directed him to give me the latest book by pastor and best-selling author Mark Batterson. Ironically, its title is Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God.

In reading the book, I have become more attuned to my Father’s voice. And more grateful for people like my friend who listen to his voice and bless the rest of us as a result.

A disclaimer: I have never been very good at being intuitive. Philosophers say that we know everything we know in one of three ways: the rational, the practical, and the intuitive. We do math rationally; we start a car practically (unless you’re an automotive mechanic, in which case you probably start your car rationally); and we like someone intuitively.

We all do all three, but one tends to dominate our personality. For me, it’s the rational. So much so that if something makes sense to me, that’s usually (and sometimes erroneously) all I need to know. As a result, I can miss other ways God wants to speak to me each day.

Batterson points to Scripture, desires, doors, dreams, people, promptings, and…