Have you ever noticed in movies that when office assistants carry coffee cups into a building for the staff, you can tell there is no coffee in the cups. The actors hold the carriers too lightly or too freely. If the cups were full, the person would be carrying the cups more carefully and seriously, lest anything might get spilled.

This idea reminds me of how we often carry messages to one another. We can present what we have to say flippantly or with empty words that have no meaning. Or we can carry our words with seriousness and full of meaning. The Bible wants us to know that it is important to approach one another with fullness. St. Paul assures the Romans, “I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ” (Romans 15:29). St. Paul later tells us that we should “be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19).

Consider your approach the next time you come to a gathering of people with news to share. Let what you have to give be full of Christ’s blessing and have the weightiness of God’s outpouring of love. The results promise to be good to the last drop.