from Eugene Peterson’s The Message, Proverbs 13, (with commentary 🙂

Careful words make for a careful life, careless talk may ruin everything.

(Every word we say continues to be said forever…)

The rich can be sued for everything they have, but the poor are free of such threats.

(Reassuring, until further down there was this proverb: ”Banks foreclose on the farms of the poor, / or else the poor lose their shirts to crooked lawyers”)

Arrogant know-it-alls stir up discord, but wise men and women listen to each other’s counsel.

(A sign of spiritual and intellectual maturity is when someone says ‘That’s a new idea; I must think more about that’)

A refusal to correct is a refusal to love; love your children by disciplining them.

(Children-needing-correction come in all ages; teenage twits come in all ages; but once corrected, if they refuse to listen – and if the correction was offered in love – the best thing to do is to leave them alone. Failure to correct is to deprive another of the possibility of growth and change).

Avagoodday!

Shalom!

Rowland Croucher

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