They tell us (and I don’t know who “they” are) that every word, song, or anything else you can think of goes up into the clouds! There must be a lot of junk flying around up in the clouds. The Bible tells us especially in Proverbs and James that our tongues are like fire, but we control the words. Proverbs says words satisfies the mind as much as fruit does the stomach. (The Bible in today’s language) The Bible also tells us that words kill. They are either poison or fruit. You choose.

Have you noticed the good feeling you get when you know you’ve helped someone just by talking to them? You can tell by the smile on their faces. I’ll bet you smiled all the way home!

Why don’t we do this more often. Most of the time we seem to open our mouths and let our tongues say whatever they want to say. What if we took a little time to think, Will this  be poison or will it be fruit?

Lately, we have been treated, and I do say TREATED to hearing “Merry Christmas” from everyone, those friends we know and those we don’t. It sounds more beautiful probably because we kinda sounded like we were slipping our tongues over rough stones when we felt obliged to say, “Happy Holidays”. I know some of the sales people glared at me when I said “Merry Christmas”.

So, let’s be merry this Christmas season and not only say, “Merry Christmas”, but think before you say any of those words that are poison. Oh, come on now, I know I say those poison words too. Let’s all try to tell our tongues to change the bad words to good ones, at least some of the time. If more of us did that, we would see fluffy, white clouds up there, instead of those dark, gloomy ones. Or, does he who tells us that all our words go into the clouds just couldn’t think of a better place to store stuff?

Merry Christmas!