A Wholesome Tongue Is Like A Tree Of Life

 Every generation since the creation is familiar with fire, and understands its benefits as well as its dangers. A fire needs fuel to keep it alight and if wood is withheld from the burning embers, then the heat it gives off will die down and the flame will go out!
 Although fire has many benefits and a wholesome tongue is like a tree of life... that same fire can cause havoc, distress, and devastation. In the same way the tale-bearer, the gossip, the slanderer, and the whisperer, can cause much mischief, but when there is no-one to spread gossip, conflict dies down.
Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You for the wisdom in the book of Proverbs. Help us to take to heart the devastation and destruction that can be caused by careless speech and foolish words. Keep us from participating in any form of talebearing or gossiping. Help us to take to heart this simple truth, that without wood, a fire will go out, and without a gossip, conflict will die down. Purify our hearts and our speech we pray, and may the words of our mouths and the thoughts of our hearts be acceptable to You. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.