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@#%*!!!
Argus...never cusses, in fact he's known to take great exception to
profanity, sometimes violent exception if there is a woman present. No,
Argus never swears, he just sounds like he does. he has a way of stringing
biting little words together that can offend the sensitivities of even the
most seasoned bystander before they realize what he said. "Weasel-lipped
dipstick" is one of his favorites, usually reserved for Bud. "Soggy toast
on two legs." "Ratchet-brained she-goat." Argus's opinions of other people
are made painfully and colorfully clear.
--from The End of the Road, by Tom Bodett
Have you ever
wondered what makes a cuss word a cuss word? It is not the spelling or
pronunciation. Words that are perfectly fine here can be cuss words in
Australia. Good English in England can be unpardonable "French" in
America. Is it geography, then? No. Culture? We're getting closer.
I think the answer is simply that whatever word offends another person is
profane. Sometimes we squeak by with "next of kin" words that don't sound
as offensive. I don't deny that those words are preferable to profanity. I
wonder, though, how many people started down that road and wound up
"cussing like a sailor" before it was over. Even those words will offend
some people. Once you are comfortable with that, what's the big deal in
offending a few more?
James 3:2 says, "If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect
man..." (KJV) James wasn't saying, "It's impossible, so give up!" He was
saying, "It's tough, but work hard at it, because it is waaay too
important to ignore."
Argus Winslow, a character created by Tom Bodett, gets away with just
sounding like he cursed and still comes across as a lovable
character. But that is fiction! The adjectives that Bodett used to
describe Argus' language give insight into how such language works in
real-life. "Biting," "offend the sensitivities," "painfully...clear."
Blessed is the man who offends not in speech.
Why do people curse? The attention it gets them? The power it gives to
offend or hurt others? Whatever the reason, I can guarantee that the
motivation is not "love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a
sincere faith."
Wrestle your tongue down! When you've put it in it place, you will be
perfect (complete).
--Stephen Seibert
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Sodium Chloride
"Ye are the salt of the
earth: but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to cast out, and to be trodden
under foot of men.
Matthew 5:13
Sodium is an extremely active
element found naturally only in combined form; it always links itself to
another element. Chlorine, on the other hand, is the poisonous gas
that gives bleach its offensive odor. When sodium and Chlorine are
combined, the result is sodium chloride-common table salt-the substance we
use to preserve meat and bring out its flavor. Love and truth can be
like sodium and chlorine. Love without truth is flighty; sometimes
blind, willing to combine with various doctrines. On the other hand,
truth by itself can be offensive, sometimes even poisonous. Spoken
without love, it can turn people away from the Gospel. When truth
and love are combined in an individual or a church, however, then we have
what Jesus called "the salt of the earth", and we're able to preserve and
bring out the beauty of our faith.
David H. Johnson
Nail
in the Fence.
There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper.
His father gave him a bag of nails and told him every time he lost his
temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of a fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the
next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails
hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier
to hold his temper than drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the
boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and
the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail each day he was
able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was
finally able to tell his father that the nails were gone. The father
took the boy by the hand and led him to the fence. He said "You have
done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence
will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a
scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it
out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is
still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one."
Our Christian family and
friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make us smile and
encourage us to succeed. They lend and ear, they share words of
praise, and they always want to open their hearts to us. We should
treat them in such a way as to never leave a hole.
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