Let us go on another hypothetical middle school adventure. Let us say that we are walking down a middle school hallway one day and simply observing whatever we saw. All of a sudden, we see this girl, who has a lot of friends that seem to be very popular in their school.
However, when you listen to their conversations, they tend to put people down. For example, one time you see the girl walk up to another girl in the school and criticize her purse because she did not buy it from a store, but it was given to her by her parents.
You may think, wow, how mean of a statement and a person this girl is. But, in her mind, she is only hoping to motivate the other girl to fit in like her, and impress her friends at the same time. In her mind, she has good intentions, but her words greatly and detrimentally effect the other that she picked on, so much so that the girl decides to transfer schools!
We may have halfway good intentions in the things that we say, but are they still encouraging? Do we truly monitor our tongues, which possess the power of life and death? It is not just about intention, the actions themselves matter as well! Do you truly monitor your tongue?
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