i think i should come with a warning label.
i've very recently realized that i must be very offensive. i'm forever having to retrace my words and smooth over the hurts they've caused. i don't do it on purpose! and i don't remember being like this before!
am i really that immature, that my thoughts take verbal form and fly in the face of any innocent passerby? that is terriffically selfish. i don't even realize i'm doing it!
"for we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. if we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. so also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. how great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! and the tongue is a fire, a world of unrigheousness. the tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. for very kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. it is a restless evil. full of deadly poison. with is we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God . from the same mouth come blessing and cursing. my brothers, these things ought not to be so." - james 3:2-10
oh Lord God, hold my mouth shut before i defame You.
