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The book of James tells us the tongue is a mighty weapon. The struggle to tame it is real! Tune in for more . . .

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00:00:01 --> 00:00:05 The book of James tells us the tongue is a mighty weapon.

00:00:05 --> 00:00:08 The struggle to tame it is real.

00:00:09 --> 00:00:10 Tune in for more.

00:00:10 --> 00:00:15 Hello,

00:00:15 --> 00:00:16 and welcome to Momo 634,

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00:00:26 --> 00:00:31 Momo 634, motivational moments just for today.

00:00:46 --> 00:00:49 This isn't the episode I had prepared for today.

00:00:50 --> 00:00:51 As you know,

00:00:51 --> 00:00:54 these generally tend to be ripped from the headlines of my day,

00:00:55 --> 00:00:58 so I wanted to deconstruct an incident with you.

00:01:00 --> 00:01:00 In the episode,

00:01:01 --> 00:01:02 My Origin Story,

00:01:03 --> 00:01:06 I've mentioned I was pretty salty as a kid.

00:01:06 --> 00:01:07 In fact,

00:01:07 --> 00:01:09 my mouth was very salty,

00:01:10 --> 00:01:14 something I can't even think about now without cringing.

00:01:15 --> 00:01:17 Colossians 4.6 says,

00:01:18 --> 00:01:20 Let your speech always be gracious,

00:01:21 --> 00:01:22 seasoned with salt,

00:01:23 --> 00:01:26 so that you may know how to answer everyone.

00:01:28 --> 00:01:31 Clamping your lips down around a smart mouth is one thing,

00:01:32 --> 00:01:33 but gracious speech?

00:01:34 --> 00:01:36 That becomes a little harder.

00:01:37 --> 00:01:41 That's the kind of tongue wrangling James discusses in chapter 3.

00:01:43 --> 00:01:48 I recently confessed my shame around the whole OCD compulsive

00:01:48 --> 00:01:49 speech thing in the

00:01:49 --> 00:01:51 episode New Self-Discovery.

00:01:53 --> 00:01:57 It has been a true, lifelong struggle.

00:01:58 --> 00:02:01 But today I had not one,

00:02:02 --> 00:02:07 but two people in two different conversations where neither one

00:02:07 --> 00:02:08 knew about the other.

00:02:09 --> 00:02:12 And both parties came back to me later.

00:02:12 --> 00:02:13 to apologize.

00:02:15 --> 00:02:19 If I could have captured the look of astonishment on my face,

00:02:19 --> 00:02:24 I'm sure it would have been what I call a heart snapshot for my

00:02:24 --> 00:02:25 rainy day toolkit.

00:02:27 --> 00:02:31 I'm not foolish enough to say I've got this tongue problem licked,

00:02:31 --> 00:02:32 pardon the pun,

00:02:33 --> 00:02:38 but I will say it was so much easier to extend gracious words

00:02:38 --> 00:02:38 to them than

00:02:38 --> 00:02:43 and accept their apologies than it is to forgive myself for the

00:02:43 --> 00:02:44 compulsive speech issue.

00:02:45 --> 00:02:49 I'll have to work harder at extending grace to myself.

00:02:51 --> 00:02:52 Our Momoism for today says,

00:02:53 --> 00:03:01 Graciously seasoned words soothe the palate and are far easier to digest.

00:03:02 --> 00:03:04 Which do you find harder,

00:03:04 --> 00:03:11 to be a gracious speaker or forgiving the graceless speaker?

00:03:12 --> 00:03:13 Chime in below.

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