7.26-Self control over the tongue..

7.26-

There were three times that I remember my father in law, Ralph Self, had an outstanding amount of self-control over his tongue.

There was that time when I left my house late in the evening because I was upset and didn’t tell Sheila where I was going or when I would be back.  I drove over to a friend’s house for some counsel.  Sheila got worried and called her dad.  When I did get home Sheila told me she had called her dad because she was very concerned.  I felt I deserved to be yelled at by him.  I called him.  He said,  “Larry, this is a problem between you and Sheila and you guys must solve it.”  I never heard him mention it again.

Ralph did a good job keeping his cars looking nice inside and out.  He parked his new Blue Buick next to my car in my garage.  I opened my door too widely.  When he found out that I had put the first dent in it he said nothing to me about it.  Nothing.

He had lovely light green Mercury.  The interior was lovely and the same color as the outside paint.  He kept the upholstery and the headliner clean and perfect.  His visor on the right side became loose in year six of the car, (he usually traded every seven years).  He took a safety pin and pinned it up to the headliner.  Gladys knew not to put it down without taking out the safety pin.  I was riding with him and didn’t notice the pinned visor.  I jerked it down quickly tearing the headliner.  Ralph said nothing except.  “Don’t worry about it.  I will fix it later.  No big deal.”

I was not surprised to see the green highlighting of this verse.

James 1.
26 If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not [ab]bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Larry Wishard
7.22.18

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