Drama. Drama, drama, drama. It's amazing how it permeates the world of women. It seems like in today's reality TV culture it's not only permitted but often encouraged. I had hoped that once I left high school behind so also would the cliques, the gossip, the slander, the put downs be left behind. And yet I see and hear of grown women participating in these things. Ladies--we're moms for goodness sakes!!!! We are to be role models to our children-is that what you really want them to grow up acting like? If you think I'm exaggerating the matter let's look and see what the Bible has to say about busybodies: But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. - 1 Peter 4:15 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. - 1 Titus 5:13 In the first verse a busybody is listed in the same sentence as a … [Read more...]
The Daily – Have IIIIII Got a Trunkful of Dirt….
I always laugh at that line when my daughter watches Disney's Dumbo. One of the women elephants is about to share some gossip about Dumbo's Mom. All the women (elephants) are gathered together discussing a recent outburst by Mrs. Jumbo (Dumbo's Mom), and then one of them says; "Have IIIIIII Got a Trunkful of Dirt..." ...and then begins to "spill the beans". Have you guessed today's topic yet? Gossip It is poison. Period. There is no good gossip. ALL Gossip is wrong...even the gossip we read in popular magazines when checking out at the grocery store. The words of a whisperer or talebearer are as dainty morsels; they go down into the innermost parts of the body. - Proverbs 18:8 (amplified) I remember in elementary school we did an experiment. The teacher made all the kids stand in a line side by side. Then, she whispered something into the first kid's ear and they were to repeat it (whisper) to the kid next to them and so on down the line. When it got to the end, the last … [Read more...]
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