I think I've finally learned how to bite my tongue appropriately.
This is great news. I'm known for dishing out advice to people...often its welcome but often its not. I'm proud of this recent development of mine. Adults do not need to hear from me...unless they want to. And even then, I've become so much more reluctant to share how I see something...and I think this is a good thing.
Knowing when to say something and when not to is a very difficult skill to master. I'm getting better everyday. I'm learning very quickly how work place conversations are not always as private as one seems. Better that I learn that lesson here than in a couple years.
Also...no more female friends from now on. I've got enough. Applications are not being accepted anymore.
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Ephesians 5:15
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
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1 Corinthians 13:11
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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Proverbs 12:18
18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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I am responding to your latest blog about the workplace situation you endured. I am sure this experience completely surprised you. It is the right of passage of the young to be stupid. As we continue to mature, we discover with the help of life’s experience, a filter, which we are able to utilize to keep the tongue in check. You are in safe company but something snaps and comes back at you stinging greatly. Steve Irwin discovered in the most fatal of ways that sometimes it is not safe to open your mouth.
I can recall three times in my life when I was rebuked by someone for things I said. The rebukes stung greatly but fortunately, I remembered the situations and frankly, benefitted from it. I am sure that there are more than three times when I spoke out of turn and said the wrong things.
Please read the scriptures I have put into this response. I included them only for your benefit because they have helped me greatly.
Do not intentionally swim with sting rays, but be prepared just in case you are in the water with them.
I chuckled about your response to the women. That was funny. However, love is a many splendored thing.
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