---We All Are Sinners ~~

--"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through
the redemption which is in Christ Jesus." --[Romans 3 23-24]

--"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my
rock and my redeemer." --[Psalm 19:14]

--"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
---[1 John 1:9] --

---I was rushing across the lobby of my apartment building, lugging a bunch of groceries and hoping to make it into the waiting elevator when the sole occupant of said elevator allowed the door to close in my face. And out of my mouth came a word I don't like to say and won't repeat here.

Sooner or later most of us give in to the occasional swear word, even it its under our breath. I'm never happy about it. God gave us the gift of language and we shouldn't debase it by cursing.

Experts says swearing is a part of every culture and remarkably consistence in its content. Even stroke patients who have lost the capacity for speech have been known to let fly with a volley of obscenities. My own mother--in the final stages of Alzheimer's -- let loose with a few choice words. I never even dreamed she knew.

Linguists speculate that this is because the area of the brain that controls swearing is different and more primitive than the part that controls normal speech. It is connected to emotions like anger and fear, a kind of verbal safety valve, supporting the theory that swearing was a way to circumvent more violent responses in early humans. Still, we hear so much of it these days that searing has become offensively commonplace. Common curses in the eighteenth century included "Gazooks" (for God's eyes) and "zounds" (God's wounds).

Like most bad habits I struggle to break, the only solution is to humbly ask God for help. He hears all, even the whispers of our hearts. ~~

"Father, our tongues are meant to praise You. Pleas help me keep mine pure, in Jesus Name. amen. "

--Guideposts/EG~