Taming the Tongue

Taming the Tongue
James 3.1-12

Some while ago I was asked to give a talk about my early life and why I had chosen the path I did. I was surprised, when preparing the talk, to discover how many of the key moments in my first fifteen years were to do with my teachers. Like many others, I suppose, I had some good teachers and some bad ones; but among the good ones there were two or three who took the trouble to get to know me, to find out what made me tick, and to give me friendly words of encouragement and advice. Often that’s all it takes. Someone you trust says one or two sentences, and a door opens into a whole new world...

Taken from Early Christian Letters For Everyone by Tom Wright