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Proverbs!
[32]  The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, 
but the speech of the wicked is perverse.
Proverbs 10:32 NET
Such interesting words in this Proverb:
Righteous - tsaddiyq - just, righteous
Pleasing - ratsown - goodwill, favour, acceptance, delight.
Wicked - rasha - morally wrong
Perverse - tahpukah - twisting or overturning what is straight - usually found in a covenental setting.
So if Proverbs is not a weapon to beat others or ourselves with, but an invitation into our own hearts, what does this last Proverb of Ch10 invite us to consider?

This covenant use of tahpukah, around promises, when have I made promises to myself about something, and my internal dialogue has talked me out of it, twisted what I really wanted or what was straight in me?
Made a promise to myself, then deceived myself?
Our words have power in our external world, and in our internal world.
And this Proverb invites us to use pleasing, acceptable, delightful words in our internal dialogue, the way we speak to and about ourselves - what are you and I invited to change to be pleasing, acceptable, delightful in the way we speak about ourselves today?

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#wisdom
#self compassion
#somethingtochewon #itsaheartthing #takethenextstep #speaklifetoyourownlife

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