A few days I purchased this book 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue by Deborah Smith Pegues and I want to highly encourage everyone to get a copy of this wonderful book. Deborah does an absolutely wonderful job of breaking down the different ways we use our tongue and then offers a great scriptural application for us to meditate upon so that we can change the way we speak.

There are so many jewels in this book it’s amazing. For example, in the last chapter titled The Silent Tongue Deborah writes, “Speech is silver, but silence is golden.” She writes this to tell us that first, this proverb that we always hear “Silence is golden” is only actually the second half of the proverb, and to show us that the value of speech is like silver. In fact, silver used to be considered more valuable than gold.

In another chapter she writes, “Learn from the burn, but forgive to live.” She says this in the context of discussing the betraying tongue. And her point is that all of us have been burned by someone at sometime because of how someone has spoken against us. Offering forgiveness releases us to live in freedom.

So…if you want a wonderful, easy to read and challenging to apply book, I want to encourage you to buy a copy of this book today. It’s wonderful.

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For those of you who read this blog regularily, then you already know about how Eric has been wrongfully convicted for a crime he did not commit. I am committed to keeping you aware of what is the most recent news I can.

Yesterday I was informed in an email that Eric’s health is not doing well. He is sick right now possibly with parasites and/or ulcers. Eric still needs our prayers and letters of encouragement. A few days ago the Friends of Eric website was updated and readers are being encouraged to write Eric and continue to let him know you are praying for him.

There is also some good news concerning the media coverage in Nicaragua as it appears that one of the newspapers is beginning to print the facts about his case. This is progress for which we Praise the Lord.

Keep praying everyone and click over to his site (linked above) and write some notes of encouragement.

Okay, so this morning I was over at my friends blog Life is a Buffet and in order to post my comment I had to verify my comment by typing the blury code that appeared in a box. And it took me 3 tries before I got it right…

But here’s the thing…who is the wise guy who decided to make these comment confirmation codes BLURY? What’s the deal with this?

Imagine with me for a moment…what if every time we needed to confirm something we had to do it by reading something blury? What if you had to confirm that your vision isn’t good by confirming that you see things blury without your glasses and you did the best you could to read that eye chart and then they said….”Hey, now you have to read this thing here and confirm that what you read was already blury.”

Augh.

And what exactly is the point of making these comment confirmation codes BLURY in the first place? If the whole reason we have these confirmation things is so we can confirm we are not a computer what is the brilliant mind behind this blury mess trying to prove ….that you can trick a computer by making the text blury! Seriously…how stupid is that!

You and I both know that if a computer could read in the first place this whole thing would make sense. So there’s only one conclusion I can come to concerning this whole blury comment code confirmation thing.

The guy who created it…and it had to be a guy…and probably the same guy who created bras, nylons, and highheels, the guy who created this must have taken off his glasses.

What? What did YOU think I was going to say…

Well, in case you haven’t heard this news by now, I have to tell you that a Mickey Mouse clone is being used by Hamas to teach children how to hate and kill Christians. This is a horrid story and yet, it’s absolutely true.

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