Sticks and Stones
Unlike the ending to the nursery rhyme, "sticks and stones...and names can never harm me," we do know that names and words can indeed hurt a person as cruelly as sticks and stones. Furthermore, whereas physical wounds may heal and disappear from memory, verbal wounds may have lifelong pychological consequences.
Have you ever been verbally attacked? Do you know anyone that has?
It happens to people of all ages -- children in the playground or school, spouses at home, parents by their children and children by their parents.
Every social interaction, every verbal exchange, has the potential to be life-enhancing or life-threatening. We are responsible for our words as well as for our actions, and so are our loved ones. Let them know it.
Have you ever been verbally attacked? Do you know anyone that has?
It happens to people of all ages -- children in the playground or school, spouses at home, parents by their children and children by their parents.
Every social interaction, every verbal exchange, has the potential to be life-enhancing or life-threatening. We are responsible for our words as well as for our actions, and so are our loved ones. Let them know it.
posted by Dr. Spiegel at
9:06 AM
1 Comments:
I have read both in shmiras haloshon books and books about prayer "Praying Wlith Fire" by Rabbi Heshy Kleinman that if we use our mouths to speak Loshon Hora, if we use our mouths to verbally hurt people, calling them names and abusing them, that your prayers will not be answered because you have defiled the very vessal used for prayer with improper and hurtful speech. Makes me think about the words that I speak.
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