Ever get your feelings hurt by something someone said they can never take back? Ya know...it's usually said by someone you really adore or admire, and they say something that rattles down into your heart like a stone into a dry well. It resonates within your being. And leaves you feeling hollow...
The self esteem that you had...perhaps had even tried to build up...is gone. You know you're good at other things, but with the thing that meant so much to you within the relationship you had...it's just no longer there. Withered.
It's amazing...and torturous...to realize the value of words. They can make you feel like a princess...only to discover you've really been nothing but that other ragged Cinderella the whole time. Incompetent. Worthless. Ignorant. Stupid. Soot.Cinders. Ashes.
They can carry a child so high and so far...with so much love...
Make a genius out of the common.
And bring a lover down so low...wishing for a corner in which to crawl.
A new relationship out of the old. Things are changed. Diminished. Not of value.
Not cherished.
It only takes words. If you take "words" and unscramble it, you find the sword that either rallies for the good, or rends the heart asunder.
"When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong wings, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts.
Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body...
All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,
BUT NO MAN CAN TAME THE TONGUE...
Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing...This should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?...Can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can asalt spring produce fresh water."
Some things are forever changed after thoughtless words.
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Amen... words can create (In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God), or they can destroy (like you describe). As a teacher our words can encourage a child to do more or discourage them from even trying. That is why it is so important to listen more and talk less. Good entry! Bea
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