Me:  Howdy Prodigal!  Who are you talking with?

 

Prodigal:  Just some good folks from back home.

 

Me:  That reminds me of a poem about our conversations with others.  Would you like to hear.

 

Prodigal:  Yes, I would.

 

This comes from God’s Little Devotional Book for Women.

 

Wouldn’t this world be better,

If folks whom we meet would say,

“I know something good about you,”

And treat you just that way?

Wouldn’t it be splendid,

If each handshake, good and true,

Carried with it this assurance:

“I know something good about you”?

Wouldn’t life be happier,

If the good that’s in us all,

Were the only thing about us

That people would recall?

Wouldn’t our days be sweeter,

If we praised the good we see?

For there is a lot of goodness,

In the worst of you and me.

Wouldn’t it be fine to practice,

This way of thinking too;

You know something good about me,

I know something good about you?

 

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org