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This weekend the ladies from the UNBOUND ministry team had an overnight retreat at Ridgecrest.  Ridgecrest is the hidden little diamond in the NC Mountains.  It’s very inexpensive, secluded, and beautiful.  Oh, and I forgot the best part-black bears live there.  Ya, we’d had an incredible first few hours there.  Holly led an absolutely God inspired retreat, and in sort of the middle of one of them, I think we were all having an emotional unplanned cleansing sorts.  In the midst of an ocean of tears we hear something, and all just freeze “what was that?”  The ever so brave Megan B. says “I’m not scared, I’ll go see.”  And see she did-a bear.  We all screamed and then went to lock the door and discovered there was no lock.  We would surely be eaten alive.  We called security and they quickly came. “There’s a bear at the back door.”  “I know.  There’s a momma and her 2 cubs.”  As in “Ya, big deal, we know that.”  If you’ll read my blog from October you’ll see last time we were there we had received noticed that said “Bear Alert” and we had this time, I just didn’t expect to really see one.  He then showed us how to lock the back door (duh) and left.  The weekend was incredible.  I’ve heard Beth Moore say before the blessing of having friends you can bare (no pun intended) your soul to.  Thank you ladies.  You were that for me this weekend. 

Sunday was mother’s day.  I felt sick a bit on Friday, and felt bad and tired by Saturday night.  But, I had a wonderful day.  I got 2 mugs, and my facial cleanser and loads of coffee and a mini burger maker.  We went to Mark’s mom after church to celebrate and ate burgers and all kinds of yumminess.  Then we met my mom at Cracker Barrel.  You don’t understand how much I love pinto beans with corn relish and onions. MMMMMMM.

We were nearing the end of our meal and my mom, almost as an afterthought sort of thing said to our waitress, “You’ve been a very good waitress.”  I can promise you with everything in me my mom just made that statement as a pleasantry sort of thing.  I mean it was true, and my mom wanted her to know it, but we had no idea………………..

“You don’t know how much I needed to hear that” her eyes filled with tears.  I had a party of 15 and there was an order mix-up.  Me and the other waitress tried really hard to serve them, and they acted like things were fine.  They left us a $2.00 tip.  Then the mgr. told me that he’d just been chewed out because of me.  I’ve been here since 2:00 (it was 7:30) and I’ve made $12.00” Wow!! None of us saw that coming.  We tried to our best to comfort her, and I told her I would pray for her, and my mom gave her $20.00  Those few lil’ words “you’ve been a good waitress”  unleashed a flood of things that we didn’t expect. 

I’ve dealt with it the other way as well, and I’m sure you have to.  I’ve been emotionally wounded by hurtful words, and I’ve emotionally hurt other people with my words. 

Is there something you should say to someone today?? Please say it.  You don’t know what it might do for them. 

Is there something you want to say but shouldn’t??  Please don’t say it.  You may cause them more harm then you every imagined.

Proverbs 18:21 21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof

James 3

Taming the Tongue

 ¹Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. ²We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check.

 ³When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. ⁴Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. ⁵Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. ⁶The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

 ⁷All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, ⁸but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

 ⁹With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. ¹⁰Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. ¹¹Can both fresh water and salt^[a] water flow from the same spring? ¹²My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

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