The proverbs for today is: Proverbs 15: verse 4
“A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.”
Let me explain this verse by telling a story.
Last week, my granddaughter sent me a note thanking me for allowing her to stay “in my place.” She started off with, “Thank you so much for letting us stay at your beautiful place…”
There were a lot of other things she said, but I will sum them up for you. She told me what she did in leaving, but what it all meant was, “I left things better than I found them.” It was great when she got there, but it was better when she left.
That is the meaning of this verse: not about places but about what we say to others and how they are after we leave them. When we meet people and interact with them, we make things better for them. We give them words of comfort, encouragement, kindness, hope, gratitude, love, healing, and faith.
We do all of this because when we meet them, we choose to build up and leave them better.
Make the world and those whom you meet better because you were there.
I’m Lonnie Davis
And these are thoughts worth thinking.