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...]