Week 2. Jean

For sure I have underestimated the power of my own speech! Spending Lent being more mindful of this, both the negative and the positive repercussions, is very humbling.
Week 2. Michele

Week 2. Michele

How many times I have envied the prophet Isaiah: “The Lord GOD has given mea well-trained tongue,That I might know how to answer the wearya word that will waken them.” (Ch 50) Many times I am either tongue-tied at times when my speech is needed as a balm,...
Week 2. Casey

Week 2. Casey

I’m the kind of person who likes to listen first and doesn’t talk a lot…so I know that when I do speak, people listen. I try to be gentle and deliberate with how I communicate, and also to accept that the mistakes I will inevitably make as learning...

Week 2. Nan

Matthew 25…whatsoever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me. Let’s help one another and our democracy.

Week 2. Jerry

The term re-humanizing you’re so right on, but it’s a very complicated process since the lack of civil discourse has been going on for so long. I totally agree that we need to live by the acronym THINK, But I think it is much more complicated than that, since...
Week 2. Janine

Week 2. Janine

As a parent of three girls, I often think about how my words are affecting them, especially when they were younger. I remember those days when one child’s disobedience, my own work or life stress, or even simple exhaustion caused me to outburst with something...