Tag: taming the tongue

  • Gently Powerful – Proverbs 15

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    Kathy Sheldon Davis
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    What better example could I give of this verse in Proverbs 15 than that of my mother? She does a wonderful job exerting her gentle power to squelch discord. “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger” (Proverbs 15:1 NIV). My three siblings, their spouses, and I spent three days…

  • How I Control My Tongue – Proverbs 13

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    Kathy Sheldon Davis
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    By the time we drove out of the parking lot of the Grant County Fairgrounds in John Day, Oregon yesterday my head was full of disorganized snippets of a thousand conversations. The information sharing at our first family reunion in more than twenty years had been intense. “From the fruit of their lips people enjoy…