"The tongue has the power of life and death..." Proverbs 18:21-
Words do mean everything. This was a verse from church today and it
made me think....a lot :) Hateful, spiteful, nasty comments show people
exactly the kind of heart you have. I am amazed that people can be so
mean, especially when speaking about someone who had struggles in their
life like drug addiction and alcoholism. Of course,
right now I'm thinking about Whitney Houston because it's all over the
news and I've read so many posts, not for love or sympathy for the
family, but filled with vile nastiness. It doesn't matter what a
person's role in life is, we all make mistakes and are imperfect. I
always think that the hate rolling off peoples tongues should burn them
like acid because when I hear or read it, it really hurts ME for the
person they are talking about. Then I wonder, maybe the person who is
spewing that is struggling with their own things and truly they don't
understand (because of immaturity mostly?) what it is to feel empathy
for others. If we can only carry empathy for someone out of our own
experiences, then it simply isn't enough. We need to look at the
situation and realize that maybe our struggle is with apples and another
person struggles with oranges. It doesn't matter because in the grand
scheme of things, it's all the same to God. If we think we are better
because we RANK mistakes in order from bad to worse, we need to think
again, because He doesn't.
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