37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Matthew 12:37 CSB)

We have ceased to realize the weight of our words. We see this in the media and we hear it all around us, people spewing all forms of wrong. Good considered bad and bad considered good.

As I have gotten older, I have gotten quieter (when I am being mindful of myself). I realize Lincoln was right, “it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”

My silence has had two benefits, it allows me to listen more intently and it provides me time to consider my response. I find too that this allows for inner reflection on the importance, or lac there of, of what I might say.

I was raised in a time when a man’s word was his bond, and I still adhear to this maxim. Thus, I find I desire to gauge what I say more carefully, not so that I am politically correct, but so that my words are in line with being God’s man.