Out of the Overflow
For Christmas we received a few new CDs for the kids. Seeds Family Worship puts scripture to music and some of it is quite catchy. The kids already have their favorites. This song has been running around in my mind for several days: Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks the mouth speaks Matthew 12:34 I know this verse. We've memorized this verse. The passage goes on to talk about good and evil stored up in the heart. I know that too. I understand the message. But this week, as the soundtrack played in my mind, I began to think about the words I say and what my mouth speaks and what that has to say about the overflow of my heart. I am not prone to vulgarities. Cuss words do not zip to the tip of my tongue. "Bad words" do not "slip out." I just wasn't raised that way. That is not my struggle. And because I am not typically tempted by profanities I have felt removed from the implications of th...