WORDS

Shortly after I was married, and we had moved to Aiken, I visited my friend, Edie, and was
 telling her some things that I was unhappy with in my marriage. I found myself unburdening
 my thoughts to her about David, and at the end of all my negative comments, she looked
at me and said,"I don't even know him, Becky, but I don't like him, just by what you
are saying!" Boy howdy, did that bring me up short I realized for the first time in my life,
the power that words had on someone. I told her that David was not that bad, and she told
me that my words about him said otherwise. It was then, that I realized the power that
our words had, and I vowed right then and there to never do that again.
Scripture tells us that the tongue is like a fire and can set a hold forest on fire, and after
that episode, I believed it!
I say these things to warn you to be careful of the words you use around others.
I have never forgotten the words of my fifth grade teacher either when he told me that
  "I was no better than the lowest earth worm and didn't deserve to sit on the first pew of
 a church."..... That was 55 years ago too! Edie taught ne a very valuable lesson those
many years ago, and one I will never, ever forget. Build your mate up in the eyes of others.
Don't tear them down! The world will do that. You are their only helpmate, so treasure
them!
Enough said!
Becky