Never give up; you never know until you try.
The last couple months, I've been participating in a women's Bible study at a friend's church. Our study guide is "Wonderstruck," by Margaret Feinberg, which is divided
into 7 sections: "The Wonder of Divine Expectation," "The Wonder of God's Presence," "The Wonder of Rest," "The Wonder of Prayer," "The Wonder of Friendship," and "The Wonder of Forgiveness," with 5 homework lessons for each section, and a final "Celebration Gathering" to wrap things up. It's been a good experience; I recommend this study for everyone.
Last week's section was on friendship, and it was an amazing time of sharing, encouragement, and reflection. Each night's homework was about a different facet of cultivating and maintaining healthy friendships, and all were thought-provoking, but the lesson on choosing our words carefully really hit home for all of us.
I've written before cautioning us all (again) to "watch" our words, because they can cause great harm, as we all know. We've all been wounded by someone's careless words, and we've all been guilty of crushing someone with our words, sometimes not even knowing the destruction we've caused. Most of the women laughed when our facilitator posed the question of why we should be careful of our words and what can happen if we aren't, and I answered, "Mass destruction!" We spent a few minutes discussing various Scriptures relating to how our tongues can cause so much trouble. Proverbs is a great place to study up on the subject, but the verse that always comes to my mind when regarding the destructive power of the tongue is in the Book of James. The tongue really is a fire, and it's so easy to get "burned" or to "burn" someone else.
http://bible.cc/james/3-6.htm
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