I started down this path after reading of, then listening to Meryl Streep’s speech last night in which she speaks her mind on Donald Trump. Then he “spoke”his.
It is, I suppose, a constant conundrum – when to hold your tongue. One can find seemingly inconsistent positions on this. Heck, just within Proverbs we are told “he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin” (Proverbs 13:13), but also that “the lips of the wise spread knowledge.” I doubt the Bible wants us all to be mute on all issues. Like all things, there is a time to shut up and a time to speak up (though that’s not in the famous Ecclesiastes 3 run of “a time to”s. Protesters have a right to protest. People have a right to respond. Meryl Streep has a right to speak her mind. Donald Trump has a right to call her an “over-rated actress” and “a Hillary flunky who lost big.” (I will say though that last one seems odd since in her speech Streep was holding the mike in one hand, and the just awarded Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the other. Oh well, at least he had the sense to refrain from calling her a “loser,” which would have been even more inconsistent.)
Sorry, that sounds like a political rant. All this leads to one point – well, I guess, two: Words matter. Actions matter.
It occurs to me... 