{"id":25501,"date":"2022-07-09T20:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T20:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspiredwoman.org\/?p=25501"},"modified":"2022-07-13T02:26:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T02:26:19","slug":"can-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspiredwoman.org\/?p=25501","title":{"rendered":"Can You Say"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"25501\" class=\"elementor elementor-25501\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0c5ed14 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0c5ed14\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ccfdaae\" data-id=\"ccfdaae\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be99def elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"be99def\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">When my oldest son was around two years old, I had a job outside the home. Every morning while I got ready for work, I would put him in the bathtub to keep a close eye on him and give me time to put my make-up on. One morning he asked if he could play with his new toys in the tub. The day before, my husband had bought him an inexpensive combo-pack containing a boat and a ship. I said sure, and he was quite entertained for awhile.<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><b id=\"docs-internal-guid-89aeec81-7fff-125c-bba4-f0e76032a534\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;\"><br><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">As I sleepily sipped my coffee and began putting mascara on, Benjamin said something to me about his toys. Half-listening and focused more on my make-up than my son, I said, &#8220;Oh yea, that&#8217;s a great boat&#8230;&#8221; Benjamin quickly corrected me, saying, &#8220;Dada says it&#8217;s a ship.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s right,&#8221; I said (not really knowing the difference, but not really caring either). A couple minutes later, my talkative toddler said something else about his toys and without thinking, I said, &#8220;Hmmm&#8230;. yeah that&#8217;s a nice boat&#8230;&#8221; A second time, my son said, &#8220;It&#8217;s a ship.&#8221; Glancing quickly at his reflection in the mirror while continuing my routine, I said, &#8220;Oh yeah that&#8217;s right&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><b style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;\"><br><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">A few more minutes passed and believe it or not, this happened a third time &#8211; Benjamin telling me about his toys, me half-awake answering him with, &#8220;That&#8217;s a great boat&#8230;&#8221; But this time, he yelled back at me, &#8220;MOM!&#8221; I quickly turned around to see what was wrong only to see my son holding his toy up and looking at me with frustration as he said, &#8220;Can you say SHIP?&#8221;<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><b style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;\"><br><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The Bible says, &#8220;The tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles&#8221; (James 3:5)! My exchange with my son is quite small in comparison to some of the firestorms that have started with just a few words. Countries go to war and couples go to divorce court over mere words. The tongue is a weapon, that&#8217;s for sure. &#8220;A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can set off a forest fire. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it&#8230; This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can&#8217;t tame a tongue &#8211; it&#8217;s never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women He made in His image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth&#8221; (James 3:6-10, Message)!<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><b style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;\"><br><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">I am always amazed at how quickly I can go from being spiritually peaceful and joyful to irritated and convicted by this little thing called a tongue. &#8220;We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong&#8221; (James 3:3-4, New Living). But we can&#8217;t tame the tongue? How I wish we could!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><b style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;\"><br><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">I still don&#8217;t know the difference between a boat and a ship, other than one is small and used for fishing and waterskiing, while the other is much bigger and usually found on the ocean. But I could know their differences if I chose to study them. In the same way, if I care about the things that defile my life and grieve the Holy Spirit, I can learn. The Bible says, &#8220;He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit&#8221; (1 Peter 3:10). I may not be able to perfectly tame my tongue, but I can choose my words. Jesus said it starts with what we put in our heart &#8211; meaning, the things we meditate on and allow before our eyes or in our ears. &#8220;Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks&#8221; (Matthew 12:34).<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><b style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;\"><br><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">As I choose to make God&#8217;s Word a priority in my life, one of the benefits is an overflow from my heart to my mouth. &#8220;For he who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of a calm spirit&#8221; (Proverbs 17:27). If I&#8217;d had more knowledge on &#8220;ships&#8221; I wouldn&#8217;t have upset my young son. Likewise, as I gain understanding about the tongue and the various ways it can defile me, I am less likely to upset others or be the cause of strife. My words can be vain, irritating, hasty, irreverent, insincere, proud, and malicious; OR my words can be modest, helpful, sincere, respectful, humble, and kind. And like the fierce winds that oppose a ship on the open sea, I can use the rudder in my mouth to maneuver peacefully through tough conversations or perceived attacks.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><b style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;\"><br><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">So, although I&#8217;m bound to be careless with my words at some point or another, it&#8217;s what I choose to keep in my heart that keeps me from recklessly starting a fire. I am the vessel and my tongue is the blade that adjusts my direction. Can you say SHIP?<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;\"><\/span><br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my oldest son was around two years old, I had a job outside the home. Every morning while I got ready for work, I would put him in the bathtub to keep a close eye on him and give me time to put my make-up on. 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