Be careful little mouth what you say....

 Matthew 4:4

4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

Sticks and stones may break my bones

But words can reach the soul

And establish or demolish the hearer of it

Depending on the story that is told

The tale festers and brews and churns

Until we believe - whether truth or lie

And when the heart is full of it 

It is spewed out to the hearer

His spirit then to live or die

Such is the strength of the tongue

And she who learns to control it 

Is perfect in all her ways

But it requires a will that doesn't bend

During the happiest or worst of days

If bread is food for the body

Word is food for the mind

And a crucial cycle it creates

For the word spoken creates thoughts

And the thoughts thought create beliefs

And the beliefs known create emotions

And the emotions felt become reality

And the reality experienced becomes who we are 

In our heart and out of it the mouth speaks...

So choose this day, I will, 

The smallest of words I will bear 

To write or to think

Or to utter or to hear 

For void is no word

Faith comes from what's heard

Better am I then, to hold Love's words dear

Prayer: Lord with your words you created the world 🌎and declared it was good👍. You are always careful with your words! What you have spoken about me and others is no slip of the tongue. They are powerful 💪. They are true. They create and lift up and teach and protect and destroy 🔥. May I always believe the words you have said about me when words of condemnation, pride, hate, doubt, fear and anxiety pass through my heart and mind 🙅. May I always believe the words you have spoken about others when words of condemnation, pride, hate, doubt, fear and insecurity want to leave my lips against another human being 🙊. May I be ever conscious of the words I let enter my being whether from my favorite tv show📺, radio program, novels 📚, memes and internet content because it will eventually determine my culture of self and make me who I am. May I always speak words that bring grace and mercy and love 🙌to myself and those around me and in times of sickness and despair 😓 and challenge speak the things that are not as though they are 😌...words of praise, words of faith, words of truth...Your words. Amen...