Our Words and Our Thoughts

I am at times painfully aware that my words are not always sweet. That doesn't mean that they are mean or bitter, it simply means they are not always sweet. It's something I want to work on.
Proverbs 16: 23 A wise man's heart guides his mouth, and his lips promote instruction.
24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
When I am disappointed like today, when Emery said I cannot have the new goats I want, I tend to act a bit like a spoiled child, and although I don't say anything unkind, I do not reply, in Elsie Dinsmore fashion, and then go about my day with a merry heart. I brood a bit, feel sorry for myself.
Sure it might be labeled normal and very human to act this way when we are disappointed or hurt but I think we can work to be better than that.
I read Deut 32:2 "Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. " and saw that as a challenge to have my words be gentle, timely and nourishing.
So many people today are concerned more with how they feel, how they see things and how they need to be heard, that they miss the whole point of living a Christian life, to say unto others as we would have them say to and about us, its really the same as doing unto others.
We have become a people of speaking our mind at all cost, rather than having words that descend like dew. A challenge for me to have words that nourish the most tender hearts.