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I got to thinking the other day and though the thought certainly isn’t original it seems it is certainly worth visiting for a few moments.
You know…we are described not only by what people see but by what they hear.
“What are you doing home so early from choir practice?” the husband asked his wife.
“Oh,” she replied, “The organist and the choir director got in a terrible argument about how to sing “Love Divine” so we quit for the night.”
This business of words making fools of all of us at one time or the other is nothing new. It was a long time ago when Aesop made up one of his famous fables to make the point.
Once upon a time, (he scratched with his ancient writing instrument) a donkey found a lion's skin.
He tried it on, strutted around, and frightened many animals.
Soon a fox came along, and the donkey tried to scare him, too.
But the fox, hearing the donkey's voice, said, "If you want to terrify me, you'll have to disguise your bray." Aesop's moral: Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words will give him away.
Remember some of the words you never spoke are better off that way.
Fact is…if you dine on words you should never have spoken you will not be avoiding a great deal of indigestion for others as well as yourself. So throw away in the garbage can those thoughts that should never be given life.
And,oh yes “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
And, I hope you are the object of statements such as...“Oh, yes, I know them…they are always saying nice things about people.”
And certainly not the object of statements such as “That’s that person who does nothing but complain people…one at a time and constantly” or “oh yes, he’s the one who is always putting his (her) foot in his (her) mouth. Bad case of foot in mouth disease…that one.”
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But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. –Jesus Christ (Matthew 12:36-38)
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A Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog CHRISTMAS TREES ALONG THE TRENCHES
It was World War I and German Christians were on one side and American, French and English Christians on the other.
It was Christmas eve and rather than celebrating the Prince of Peace Christians on both sides held bayonets in hand ready to go forth in battle.
On the German side Christmas trees were lined five feet apart the complete length of all the trenches.
The whole tabloid was ironic to say the least.
When the time came for a new battle to start neither side moved.
Then a beautiful operatic voice broke through the night singing “Stille Nachte.”
One of the German soldier had brought his opera wife to the front.
Gradually, voices from both sides began to mingle in the darkness as Silent Night was sung in all the different languages.
Then one soldier embolden by it all picked up a tree and stepped out into No Man’s land carrying one of the trees, it’s candle wavering in the faint evening breeze.
And then…
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BELOW are QUOTES FROM THE Rust on my Soul Serialization (each Tuesday)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“I want to do more than just live. I want to be alive. I want to sometimes stand on that mountaintop. I want a song in my heart that makes my own personal Hit Parade.
I want contentment that is more than satisfied nerve endings. I want to feel the stretch of eternity in my bones.
This may indeed be more than I will ever find, but “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
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If you would like to share
this blog with a friend copy
paste and send this blog by email
or keep this URL
http://oneadayyourspiritualvitamins.blogspot.com
IN YOUR FAVORITES
and suggest they do the same
They are changed daily.
********************************
I got to thinking the other day and though the thought certainly isn’t original it seems it is certainly worth visiting for a few moments.
You know…we are described not only by what people see but by what they hear.
“What are you doing home so early from choir practice?” the husband asked his wife.
“Oh,” she replied, “The organist and the choir director got in a terrible argument about how to sing “Love Divine” so we quit for the night.”
This business of words making fools of all of us at one time or the other is nothing new. It was a long time ago when Aesop made up one of his famous fables to make the point.
Once upon a time, (he scratched with his ancient writing instrument) a donkey found a lion's skin.
He tried it on, strutted around, and frightened many animals.
Soon a fox came along, and the donkey tried to scare him, too.
But the fox, hearing the donkey's voice, said, "If you want to terrify me, you'll have to disguise your bray." Aesop's moral: Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words will give him away.
Remember some of the words you never spoke are better off that way.
Fact is…if you dine on words you should never have spoken you will not be avoiding a great deal of indigestion for others as well as yourself. So throw away in the garbage can those thoughts that should never be given life.
And,oh yes “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
And, I hope you are the object of statements such as...“Oh, yes, I know them…they are always saying nice things about people.”
And certainly not the object of statements such as “That’s that person who does nothing but complain people…one at a time and constantly” or “oh yes, he’s the one who is always putting his (her) foot in his (her) mouth. Bad case of foot in mouth disease…that one.”
*******************************************
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. –Jesus Christ (Matthew 12:36-38)
*******************************************
A Quote from tomorrow’s One A Day blog CHRISTMAS TREES ALONG THE TRENCHES
It was World War I and German Christians were on one side and American, French and English Christians on the other.
It was Christmas eve and rather than celebrating the Prince of Peace Christians on both sides held bayonets in hand ready to go forth in battle.
On the German side Christmas trees were lined five feet apart the complete length of all the trenches.
The whole tabloid was ironic to say the least.
When the time came for a new battle to start neither side moved.
Then a beautiful operatic voice broke through the night singing “Stille Nachte.”
One of the German soldier had brought his opera wife to the front.
Gradually, voices from both sides began to mingle in the darkness as Silent Night was sung in all the different languages.
Then one soldier embolden by it all picked up a tree and stepped out into No Man’s land carrying one of the trees, it’s candle wavering in the faint evening breeze.
And then…
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BELOW are QUOTES FROM THE Rust on my Soul Serialization (each Tuesday)
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING URL below to reach this Wyrick’s Writings site
http://wyrickswritings.blogspot.com/
“I want to do more than just live. I want to be alive. I want to sometimes stand on that mountaintop. I want a song in my heart that makes my own personal Hit Parade.
I want contentment that is more than satisfied nerve endings. I want to feel the stretch of eternity in my bones.
This may indeed be more than I will ever find, but “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”
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