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It's not the ones you think! Tune in to find ways to be more intentional with your language!

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00:00:00 --> 00:00:03 Sticks and stones may indeed break bones.

00:00:04 --> 00:00:06 However, words hurt too.

00:00:07 --> 00:00:10 Tune in to learn how we can be more intentional with our language.

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00:00:45 --> 00:00:50 I've been thinking a lot about the words we toss out so casually.

00:00:51 --> 00:00:51 Hate.

00:00:52 --> 00:00:52 Kill.

00:00:53 --> 00:00:54 Ugly.

00:00:54 --> 00:00:55 Dumb.

00:00:56 --> 00:00:57 All four-letter words.

00:00:58 --> 00:01:00 Sometimes we do this without any thought.

00:01:01 --> 00:01:02 I hate that singer.

00:01:03 --> 00:01:03 Really?

00:01:04 --> 00:01:06 Or is it that you just don't care for the song?

00:01:08 --> 00:01:10 I'd kill for a burger right now.

00:01:11 --> 00:01:13 Well, I think you get the idea.

00:01:14 --> 00:01:18 When my kids were little, we talked about words that had the power to hurt.

00:01:19 --> 00:01:25 If you remember from the episode My Origin Story, I was the queen of mean.

00:01:27 --> 00:01:32 A girl once told me that though she could beat me up, my bruises would heal.

00:01:33 --> 00:01:38 But the words I said, people would remember them for years to come.

00:01:39 --> 00:01:49 So, remembering the OG mean girl that I was, I told my kids we didn't say stupid, dumb, fat, shut up.

00:01:51 --> 00:01:56 Imagine being in a group of parents at church talking when your kid runs up to say

00:01:56 --> 00:01:58 their sibling said the S word,

00:01:58 --> 00:01:59 meaning stupid.

00:02:00 --> 00:02:07 Now, people might give my hippy-dippy ideas the side-eye, but I do have incredibly polite kids.

00:02:08 --> 00:02:09 They don't bully.

00:02:10 --> 00:02:15 And parents have an enormous role in shaping our children's worldview.

00:02:16 --> 00:02:22 Ezekiel 18.20 says the father doesn't answer for the sins of the son and vice versa,

00:02:22 --> 00:02:24 something 2 Corinthians 5.10 echoes,

00:02:25 --> 00:02:27 but we do speak carelessly.

00:02:27 --> 00:02:29 something Matthew 12.36 discusses as well.

00:02:32 --> 00:02:36 Ephesians 5.4 talks about coarse language and foolish jesting.

00:02:38 --> 00:02:42 What if we all spoke more four-letter words like love,

00:02:43 --> 00:02:43 pray,

00:02:44 --> 00:02:45 care,

00:02:46 --> 00:02:46 kind,

00:02:46 --> 00:02:47 and hope,

00:02:48 --> 00:02:50 like we discussed in our last episode?

00:02:51 --> 00:02:53 Will it stop the hate in this world?

00:02:55 --> 00:02:58 Maybe not, but it can counterbalance it.

00:02:59 --> 00:03:04 Not long ago, I mentioned what our world was like on September 12, 2001.

00:03:07 --> 00:03:08 That's what I'm talking about.

00:03:09 --> 00:03:16 If our sole focus was lightening the burden of another, what could we accomplish?

00:03:18 --> 00:03:23 Our bonus episode over the weekend for premium subscribers focused on the contrast

00:03:23 --> 00:03:25 between the temporal and the eternal.

00:03:26 --> 00:03:29 I know this world isn't our ultimate home.

00:03:30 --> 00:03:34 I'm not advocating for a utopian society because heaven is real,

00:03:35 --> 00:03:39 and it's better than anything humans can create.

00:03:40 --> 00:03:42 However, while we're on this journey here,

00:03:44 --> 00:03:46 Let's be intentional with our words.

00:03:47 --> 00:03:52 Let's get rid of the filler four-letter words in our lives and focus on pouring the

00:03:52 --> 00:03:55 good four-letter words into each other.

00:03:57 --> 00:04:06 Our meme for today says, Hope, love, and care are good four-letter words that can brighten our days.

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