Double Edged Sword

My mother was right! I AM just like Nellie Olson (sigh). Why won't I learn to keep my mouth shut?! Is there any weapon more hurtful than the tongue?

10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. (If you have a moment, it's worth reading the whole passage.)

But my boy was disrespectful... But I had just woke up and he was obnoxious... But maybe a good dose of his own medicine was called for...

But I was wrong. Be angry and sin not.

I recorded a voice message for you all last night and this morning used that same voice wrongly.

18Therefore lay up these words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children...

I'm going to his school, taking him to lunch and trying again to be a parent. Nellie is not invited!