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WORDS: for good or evil?

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  Psalm 12 What do you think? How do you express it?   Enough!     Kate had met her friends, Jake and Beth, for a double date to the poshest restaurant in town, but her boyfriend had never arrived. She pulled out her phone and gave him a blast.   “You stood me up! You rotten sod!”         “Get lost.” The line clicked shut. “Now you’ve put your foot in it!”     Beth's reaction hit home and s he squirmed, but the guy had gotten under her skin. Could she stop the damage, or would she make it worse? Part of her thought he deserved a tongue lashing because his mouth often ran ahead of his brain.   “He thinks he’s kingpin, always promising me something, but he never turns up, and when you finally track him down, he dismisses you with the weakest of excuses. He’s as slippery as an eel.”   She’d vented, but it hadn’t solved the problem.   We’re all familiar with blusterers, or perhaps we’ve caugh...