honeycomb

I read today. 

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. 

Proverbs 16:24

wow, that is such an incredible word picture. 

 Have you ever seen honeycomb? 

It is just ooozing with goodness. 

dripping and lovely. 

I guess I got yelled at a lot as a child. 

So in turn, I suppose I am a parent who seems to yell a lot as well. 

This is bad.

 I really really dislike this about myself. 

I need to focus on the good and drippy honeycomb words that

flow from my mouth to my children's ears. 

I need to encourage rather then to beat down. 

I need to learn to walk away 

rather then to have the last hurtful word. 

I watched Michelle Duggar encourage her child the other day. 

She encouraged her child to do something that needed to be done

but the child was frightened. 

Man, I was slapped in the face by the example 

where she encouraged, I would have lost my patience

 and just gotten angry and yelled. 

Which in turn gets NOTHING accomplished. 

I need to keep these things in mind when Parenting or being a wife or

just being a neighbor. 

I need work. 

God is not finished with me ...

not even close. 

I need to admit my weakness and then make a conscious effort to change it. 

Here I am. this is me. 

Imperfectly Beautiful. 

I need to focus on choosing words to encourage. 

I love Proverbs. they are incredibly useable.