Monday, August 22, 2005

please do try and tame your tongue

Bad/dirty words always made me feel guilty when i managed to use it especially growing up during my early school years. About two years ago my new English friend who had been born again in the Spirit and freed from bondage in the flesh brought to my full attention the everyday and almost reflexive use of foul language.

A word or phrase doesn't have to be "bad" or even "dirty" in order for it to be rendered profane, obscene, or inappropriate. It is how it is used in context. Therefore any spoken word or phrase is thoroughly capable of offending when said with an offending heart. Daily living, simple living, is no different. Keeping a clean sparkling mouth on one day and having a filthy frothing mouth on another is to be keeping two different worlds apart - you might as well be living two separate lives because in a way you really truly are.

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