{"id":47635,"date":"2022-10-01T02:59:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/silver-boxes-with-bows-on-top-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:59:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:59:25","slug":"silver-boxes-with-bows-on-top-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/silver-boxes-with-bows-on-top-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Boxes With Bows On Top – Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following poem is a reminder that the words we speak, should be chosen and uttered carefully <\/strong> not foolishly:<\/p>\n

My words were harsh & hasty
And they came without a thought.
Then I saw the pain & anguish
That my bitter words had brought.<\/p>\n

Bitter words that I had spoken
Made me think back through the past;
Of how many times I’d uttered
Biting words whose pain would last.<\/p>\n

Then I wondered of the people
I had hurt by things I’d said;
All the ones I had discouraged
When I didn’t use my head.<\/p>\n

Then I thought about my own life
Of painful words I’ve heard;
And of the times I’d been discouraged
By a sharp and cruel word.<\/p>\n

And now clearly I remember
All the things I might have done;
But, by a word I was discouraged
And they never were begun.<\/p>\n

So, help my words be silver boxes,
Neatly wrapped up with a bow;
That I give to all so freely,
As through each day I gladly go.<\/p>\n

Silver boxes full of treasure,
Precious gifts from above;
That all the people I encounter
Might have a box of love<\/p>\n

Florence Littauer<\/em><\/strong> (source – scroll to bottom of page)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following poem is a reminder that the words we speak, should be chosen and uttered carefully not foolishly: My words were harsh & hasty And they came without a thought. Then I saw the pain & anguish That my bitter words had brought. Bitter words that I had spoken Made me think back through … Continue reading “Silver Boxes With Bows On Top – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}