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Showing posts with label ROGET’S THESAURUS. Show all posts

Friday, August 12, 2011

Sticks and Stones


           An old joke I love goes like this:

Two trucks loaded with a thousand copies of ROGET’S THESAURUS collided as they left a New York publishing house last Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied...

            Words do matter. An ill-timed word can wound forever. That’s one reason Paul wrote, Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone”(Col. 4:6.)