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Book Review: Keep It Shut

06 Monday Aug 2018

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Recently, I started buddying reading Christian living books with a fellow Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club member so we could encourage each other to have regular reading time devoted to God. Our first book was Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All by Karen Ehman.

I really enjoyed Keep It Shut as Ehman gave it an authentic, humble voice, practical application and knowledge rooted in scripture. The book flowed smoothly, and every bit of advice and accompanying scripture applies to everyday life. I found myself considering my interactions and how I could adjust the words that left my mouth and the ones that floated in my mind in response to people or situations. Ehman made it a reminder to everyone and even humbly shared her own flaws and experiences. She struggled with this concept herself, and that made her a prime candidate to share what she had learned (and still needed to learn). Her examples resembled ones anyone might have; even though I didn’t have children trying out for sports, I could understand how the other gossipy or pushy parents could trigger frustration. As Ehman described, everyone’s days fill with opportunities to use words.

This book applies to everyone, and I recommend it for everyone. It has a message I will continue to reflect upon. I wrote down her prayer to say daily requesting God to guide out words on a notecard to use as a bookmark while reading this book and continued to use it in the subsequent books we read. We would all do well to reflect upon our words to make sure we use them wisely.

Melodic Remedy

11 Thursday Sep 2014

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company, depression, melancholy, melody, music, perspective, poem, poetry, sadness, words

They try to knock it

The beauty in the pain

That the music shares

Better than I explain

 

But I’m not the first

To feel so low

And won’t be the last

To survive the blow

 

So I listen widely

To the company in melody

A kindred melancholy

Part of the remedy

 

Then my words pour out

An alternate perspective

That I let go knowing

My view has my directive

Cracked Mirror

18 Tuesday Mar 2014

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breakup, communication, hope, letting go, love, mirror, poem, poetry, reflection, relationship, words

I look into the mirror
After the fog clears
I can’t see you
Through all my fears

I know you’re there
After it’s said and done
A crack splits us
No reflection as one

I hold it so tight
This vision inside
You staring back
Returning with the tide

Now it’s only me
When you don’t take time
To cherish this love
Worth more than a dime

All I feel is alone
When you say nothing at all
How can you not know
Without words I fall?

I have my one request
That you’ve let slip
So I’ll stop asking
And save this service of lip

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