Last week I was invited to give a brief lesson or sermon my school’s weekly chapel. Our usual chaplain was due to be out that day, so the associate head of school asked me to deliver a message.
Earlier in the academic year I gave a short talk on listening intently and graciously, so I thought that a good complement would be to talk about the power and danger of our words—our fiery tongues!
I blog daily, and I know I’ve let my waggling tongue (in the form of a digital pen) get me into hot water. It’s never a good feeling, and I’ve certainly written—and said!—things I regret.
For hot-blooded teens, it’s even more of a problem. Rather than condescend to them with another jeremiad about “bullying”—such an insipid word—I decided to go directly to The Source
With that, here is my brief chapel lesson from Thursday, 2 February 2023, “Taming Your Tongue”:
The Portly Politico 