Years ago I worked at a salon. It was a perfect fit for my gossipy ways. I could gossip all day long & it was completely acceptable. But after working there about a year passed and all the sudden I started having these feelings. I would gossip and then feel gross. What is happening to me. I decided to test it and discovered God was doing a work in me. I started to work on it & soon found out this thing, was a thing for me. Gossip was a yummy, but so very yucky guilty pleasure for me. I started working on it. I shared with my sister in law & a friend how I struggled and how I had been very after gossiping. I began learning about how powerful words are & christian gossip. You know the "we should pray for so & so because they are struggling with this thing you totally should not have shared about them " And then I got invited to a small group. One of the guidelines was not to share what is being shared. I sat there, thinking, there is no way. I don'...
"we tend to stay away from mourning and dancing. too afraid to cry, too shy to dance. we become narrow-minded complainers, avoiding pain and also true human joy. while we live in a world subject to the evil one, we belong to God. let us mourn, and let us dance." -henri nouwen