More than Writers

I know we all know this – words are powerful. Words can build up, or tear down. Indeed, Proverbs tells us: ‘The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.’ (Proverbs 15:4) I have had a couple of instances of the latter in recent months, in which I have been left reeling and have had to spend time working through the hurt and pain. I have had to get to a place where I could humbly ask God ‘was there any truth in that?’ and then doggedly decide to let go of whatever I felt was not true. A very painful process – and one that was forced upon me rather than asked for! What those rather tender and difficult moments have caused me to reflect once more on is the fact that Scripture tells us time and time again to prefer one another and build one another up. Everything in me had wanted to let rip, so that others got a piece of my mind – and a correction telling them what was wrong with their point of view! But I know that isn’t my place, a...