Keep Your Forked Tongue Behind Your Teeth
The Power of Words to Burn Your Life Down
I love Gandalf’s scathing rebuke of Wormtongue in The Two Towers when he said, “keep your forked tongue behind your teeth!”
The Bible’s description of the tongue’s destructive power is similar. There’s a potential Wormtongue in all of us, deceiving, grumbling, and burning down people’s lives and reputations.
The ability to communicate with words is one o…
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