As a child, I could never understand the crazy sounds my mom and her sisters would make whenever they talked (a.k.a gossiped). I was not really meant to be listening but I was even though I pretended to be totally engrossed in the toy car my brother had made for me out of empty St. Louis sugar boxes and peak milk cans (yes, at some point in my childhood, I got tired of playing with dolls and twirling batons! *laughing*. Anyway, back to the hissing matter. What on earth is it all about?
I mean, I know I do it too from time to time but I don’t know how to do it well. Some people are experts at it. They have even come up with new ways of letting out these long, slow hisses that linger with you minutes after it hits you. Lol! Personally, I am still trying to figure out how to get just the right emotion into it. I mean how do you differentiate the ‘I am mad at you’ hiss from the ‘I don’t have your time’ hiss? Or how do I put the right amount of venom in a hiss to make sure that you get the fact that you are just wasting my time? As opposed to the light hiss that communicates being tired or not knowing what to do? OK, sounds hilarious right but to be honest I am not laughing because someone just hissed at me. It jarred me to my very bones. What did I do? I had absolutely no idea.
 I have been sitting here wondering what on earth the hiss meant! Was it some exam to see how much of a big fat zero I am becoming? Or was I being hissed at to see if I am still hanging ‘dead’ and crucified on my Cross? Or maybe, the ‘hisser’ just wanted to inform me of my relegation to the bottom of the human and/or professional league-table? I don’t really know and to be honest, as I type these words, I am making up my mind not to care either. The good news is I tried to hold myself back a little. Had I listened to my first ungodly instincts, it would not have been pretty. I am happy I did not. I did not hold my peace totally as I would have loved to BUT I did not ‘spark’ as volcanically as I would have under another dispensation. That can only be the Holy Spirit plus to be bare bone honest? I have no more verbal energy to waste on the devil.
For I have come to realize that when the devil moves, through people we know, he also fools us into taking our eyes off him and his evil deeds/plans. I tell you, the people in our lives that mess with us are NOT the enemy. Satan is. So said person can hiss all s/he wants, I know who my real enemy is and more importantly, I know who my Defender is and I never read anywhere about a time when Jesus Christ hissed back at anyone (not even the devil!). So henceforth, I shall be training myself not to kiss my teeth at anyone no matter how much they deserve it.
Because truth be told, only snakes and other reptilian creatures make such noises. And the devil is always portrayed as what animal? Yep! You got that right.
A snake.
Think about that the next time you have the urge to hiss.
I always hiss