Sweet Speech

We just finished our spring break. It was so much fun to have the kids home all week. We went to the beach, the park, set up a tent in the yard and the kids slept outside with Jason, we went to the flee market, Abby made cookies, the girls and I looked up you tube videos of fun hand games to play, we played cards........wow we really had an awesome time over the break!!! But there was something that I noticed over the break that was not so lovely. There was a weed that sprung up while we were in close quarters and it was ugly. The kids kept saying "stop it" or "stop"' to one another. Now in all honesty I must confess that I am a culprit as well. And it is I that condoned such ugly speech by using it myself. When we speak a certain way, we are telling the kids that they have permission to speak this way. We need to be careful how we speak to one another. So I thought of way to pull up this nasty weed with pleasant weed killer. I gave the kids each a ziplock bag filled with ten Junior Mints. I set a five day timeline and told the kids that each time they said stop or stop it, that they would have to give me one of their mints. Well, it is only Tuesday but so far there bags are full. This is just a fun way to get rid of something ugly. I am often tempted to be a drill sergeant to the kids. But God is good to us when we act ugly and He blesses us when we are a garden full of weeds; this is grace! I want to act like my Heavenly Father in all things and this includes the way that I deal with ugly speech.

This is just a little fun idea for weeding out ugliness in speech. I hope that this gets your creative juices flowing as you deal with your own weeds!

Blessings to you lovely sisters!