1. Truffle Shuffling it to 31…? Well, lately I’ve been reading through a book of the Bible called James. It talks about taming the tongue and how even though we want to strive to be perfect, we aren’t… which reminds me that we need a savior that much more.Anyway, I’ve been trying for the past week to hold my tongue when I wanted to say something negative or gossipy. And you know what? I haven’t been completely able to do it. It’s hard. And I’ve even tried to imagine my tongue being that fire that spreads flames to anything I choose to speak against.So, instead of thinking about any of that… since it hasn’t worked… I’m going to pretend that whenever I speak against anyone or gossip, my tongue is doing the Truffle Shuffle. And not the cute “he’s 10 years-old” shuffle. Oh, no. I’m now 30 growing into 31. So, I’ll be picturing a 30 year-old in a ridiculous Hawaiian shirt throwing his belly around like it’s that bowl full of pudding Santa had for a belly… and that will hopefully shut me up.And it’ll probably help with any negative thoughts too. Cause once you picture my pudding belly jiggling, how in the world can you think anything negative?!?“So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.”-James 3.5-12

    Truffle Shuffling it to 31…?


    Well, lately I’ve been reading through a book of the Bible called James. It talks about taming the tongue and how even though we want to strive to be perfect, we aren’t… which reminds me that we need a savior that much more.

    Anyway, I’ve been trying for the past week to hold my tongue when I wanted to say something negative or gossipy. And you know what? I haven’t been completely able to do it. It’s hard. And I’ve even tried to imagine my tongue being that fire that spreads flames to anything I choose to speak against.

    So, instead of thinking about any of that… since it hasn’t worked… I’m going to pretend that whenever I speak against anyone or gossip, my tongue is doing the Truffle Shuffle. And not the cute “he’s 10 years-old” shuffle. Oh, no. I’m now 30 growing into 31. So, I’ll be picturing a 30 year-old in a ridiculous Hawaiian shirt throwing his belly around like it’s that bowl full of pudding Santa had for a belly… and that will hopefully shut me up.

    And it’ll probably help with any negative thoughts too. Cause once you picture my pudding belly jiggling, how in the world can you think anything negative?!?

    “So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.”

    -James 3.5-12

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