Words can create peace, or war.
Words can inspire love, or hate.
Words can be the difference between building, or destroying.
Words can heal, or wound.
Words can cause life, or death.
Words can define friendship, or enmity.
Words can promote growth, or depression.
Words can lift the soul up, or push it down.
Words can signify our strengths, or our weaknesses.
Words can be tools of godliness, or tools of all that's not.
Words can affect unity, or division.
Words can expressly motivate, or deridingly discourage.
Words can generate ecstatic joy, or miserable fear.
Choosing the right words, at the right time, for the right reasons,
Is part of our inherent agency and a responsibility that all bear.
Using the right words can make all the difference,
And change the world into a significantly better place to live.
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If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
(James 3:2)
April 20, 2011
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