“Consider how small a fire can set a huge forest ablaze. The tongue is also a fire. It exists among our members as a world of malice, defiling the whole body and setting the entire course of our lives on fire…”

                               ~James 3: 5-6

 

For Reflection:

The tongue can be an instrument of evil or a conduit of blessing, depending on whether or not it is harnessed by the Spirit of God. Is my speech always consistent with the Spirit of God or do I sometimes have a propensity to speak evil of others? What must I do to make my heart and therefore, my tongue, right with God?

A Year with Mary: Daily Meditations on the Mother of God NEW! by Paul Thigpen; 388 pgs Click Here For More Information               Introduction Even before my conversion, I had felt the irresistible attraction of her moral and spiritual beauty. She was, as the saints of old described her, the mirror of her Son's righteousness. Hers was the soft radiance of a moon that modestly reflected the blazing brilliance of the Sun, who had himself conquered my heart long before...she held out to me the promise of a relationship much more proximate, more affectionate, more intimate....she had carried in her womb the incarnate God, my Brother. No wonder the achingly sweet strains of Schubert's Ave Maria always moved me so deeply: Somewhere in my depths, I knew it was the lullaby of a loving mother I had never known, yet longed to meet.