Mouth guard, if only we wore them all day long. Protetor bucal, quem dera pudéssemos usá-lo o dia todo. Happy New Year to all. If you can understand the joke above. The mouth guard above protects our teeth, but what if it could protect us from our uncontrollable impulses to talk? Let’s start this year with at least good intentions. Let’s get better. Let’s get more humble and wiser. Let’s start with acknowledging the vices we have, which appear in our speech. Here, the author, Thomas a Kempis, and I will quote him the whole section, because I cannot write it better. “Who can fully judge or comprehend just how many and varied are the sins and vices which come to being through our words? Let us ask ourselves, how often are our words: • pointless and profitless, • Flippant and foolish,...
a pinch of God's Word // uma pitada da Palavra de Deus