Let us oft speak kind words to each other!!!

I'm having fun with family and in and out and my little blog is getting minimal attention.  I really enjoy blogging and I love the contact with each of you.  I'll get back into full swing after all the party and playing is over!!   In the meantime I'm going to share some favorite thoughts. 

Recently someone shared that their spouse had been criticized about how they are doing their Church calling.  Stuff like that just drives me bonkers!!!   Come on!!!!  Shape up!!  Stop it!!!  Look for the good and share it!!  I could quote scriptures on not speaking mean etc.  You know them already!!   Let's all be nice!!!  Speak kindly!!

I Know Something Good About You
Poet: Louis C. Shimon

Wouldn't this old world be better
If the folks we meet would say -
"I know something good about you!"
And treat us just that way?

Wouldn't it be fine and dandy
If each handclasp, fond and true,
Carried with it this assurance -
"I know something good about you!"

Wouldn't life be lots more happy
If the good that's in us all
Were the only thing about us
That folks bothered to recall?

Wouldn't life be lots more happy
If we praised the good we see?
For there's such a lot of goodness
In the worst of you and me!

Wouldn't it be nice to practice
That fine way of thinking, too?

You know something good about me;
I know something good about you.

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 Let Us Oft Speak Kind Words

Hymn- # 232

(sung earnestly)

1. Let us oft speak kind words to each other
At home or where’er we may be;
Like the warblings of birds on the heather,
The tones will be welcome and free.
They’ll gladden the heart that’s repining,
Give courage and hope from above,
And where the dark clouds hide the shining,
Let in the bright sunlight of love.

[Chorus]
Oh, the kind words we give shall in memory live
And sunshine forever impart.
Let us oft speak kind words to each other;
Kind words are sweet tones of the heart.

2. Like the sunbeams of morn on the mountains,
The soul they awake to good cheer;
Like the murmur of cool, pleasant fountains,
They fall in sweet cadences near.
Let’s oft, then, in kindly toned voices,
Our mutual friendship renew,
Till heart meets with heart and rejoices
In friendship that ever is true.

[Chorus]
Oh, the kind words we give shall in memory live
And sunshine forever impart.
Let us oft speak kind words to each other;
Kind words are sweet tones of the heart.

Text: Joseph L. Townsend, 1849–1942

Music: Ebenezer Beesley, 1840–1906

Ephesians 4:29–32

Proverbs 16:24