Our words are powerful. In recent years, I have tried to be conscience of how I use my words. Do I use them to encourage and edify? Or do I use them to slander? My mother used to say, “If you don’t have something good to say about somebody, then don’t say anything at all.” I have tried to take that advice to heart when dealing with people.

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When I was a younger girl, one of my favorite girl groups was TLC. TLC was compromised of two singers with the stage names, Chilli and T-Boz, and a female rapper with the stage name, Left Eye. These ladies were talented individuals, but they made great music together. Their fans watched as one of the young ladies took a downward spiral as the other two continued to stand by her side. One of their greatest hits is titled, “What about your friends?”

TLC (T-Boz, Left Eye, Chilli)

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I attended a leadership course a couple weeks ago and the professor asked the class a trick question. “What’s the opposite of tired?”

Take some time to think about that for a moment.

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Radical Chapter 6

Conviction. Heartbreak. Those are the two words that come to mind as I reflect on the content of this chapter. I think about the focus of today’s American church and how we respond to international missions and justice efforts, and I am reminded of a question posed in a book that I read recently, “What are we pretending not to know?”

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