Sorry this is late going up–My blog was being re-directed to a new host and it was DOWN for a while.  They said typically it is 30 min to an hour but it can take up to 24 hours—ugh.  I was not fortunate enough to be one of the lucky ones that had it done in 30 min to an hour.

²⁶ She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

She speaks with wisdom.   This gives us a lot of information about her.  She thinks before she speaks.  She thinks through what she needs to say before she shares the information.  She does not have an agenda she is trying to prove–she speaks the facts.  This also tells us that she is not silent–she does not sit quietly while her husband does all the talking for the family.  I would not see her as a giddy girl or overly chatty.  She is not puffed up, she knows where the wisdom has come from.  She doesn’t bite–I don’t mean literally.

Have you ever been around someone who thought it was their purpose in life to share what they thought you should do, how you should live, they don’t hold back one bit.  They let you have it and because they feel like they are doing it “in a spirit of love” they don’t feel bad about it at all, after all they are just sharing what you need to know.

If they got the beam out of their own eye, they wouldn’t be so concerned about the splinter in your eye.

I think she is gentle and kind and if she has something to share that may hurt someone, I think she is careful in her delivery.

She is not afraid to confront a situation and stand for what she knows to be right but she is faithful to speak with wisdom on her tongue.  She must have learned, at an early age, once it leaves your tongue-you can never get it back.  Our words can come across as a gentle stream,

a rushing and rough rapid,

a waterfall that crashes at the bottom

or a raging volcano.

Over time, the gentle, constant, consistent flow of water in a stream produces soft, round, smooth river rocks unlike the porous jagged  rocks that lava spew out.  Water can wash away all the impurities but it can be cold water that can kill by hypothermia, boiling water that leaves scares for life,  It can be so forceful that is stings, be  too slow so that it takes forever to get rid of the dirt, it can be stagnant or a constant gentle flow.  I want my words to to produce smooth beautiful well rounded lives in my path, not  jagged lives that are hurting and ready to hurt others.