Words can do harm

Many notable people have noted things in their own way. This is how I realized that the pen is mighty. I was watching a TV show called Law & Order and I thpught I knew how to judge and no simple words,regarless how compelling, would persuade me otherwise. Yet after the well scripted argument was made for the guilty party. I did change my mind.

This made an impression on me. If I read or listened to the wrong things I could be persuaded to believe them. All along I believed that I had an innate ability to judge. It was independent of the words of anyone, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Right? Well, from that point on I learned the importance of not allowing subversive or contentious words into my head. If I wanted to believe a thing and it made me happy to do so, then I needed to gaurd and protect it and nurture it.

This little belief is what is referred to as a testimony. This past week I was telling a group of children a thing I knew although they doubted. I forcibly told them it WAS true and at that point I realized that reasoning the truth was not going to prove anytjing. I felt solidly that what I spoke of was true and I have never felt like that Ever Ever before. But, I knew that it was correct and I want to feel that way again. My son was in the class and so I asked him what he believed and he said that he knew that I knew it and so it must be true because I do not just quickly believe anything haphazardly.

But, I was researching things that are evidence of what I said, and found questionable things that I would not even look at and thought "what could a few words, that are someone else's opinion do?" So, I thought all of this and remembered, "sticks and stone may break my bones, but words could spiritually kill me."