LETTERS: MIND SHOULD CONTROL BODY

Dear editor:

The article in the Marble Hill Banner-Press about hands by Robert Horrel was outstanding, and it should make us think about some other parts of us. The tongue for instance. No one has ever conquered it completely. What has happened to the promise and a hand shake. Those days are gone, except a few people who know each other well enough that they will still rely on their word.

It seems we have to have everything notarized, scrutinized, legalized and wonder if that is enough to be safe.

I knew one man that said he wanted to be buried standing up because he had lied all his life.

Haven't we all had someone tell us they would meet us somewhere and never be there, or say they would do something or charge so much and then not do it? I believe that is worse than refusing to shake hands. At least you know a person doesn't like you if they refuse to shake your hand -- unless you have a grip that hurts.

People have a head that is supposed to have a brain in it, and it is there to rule the rest of our body. Of course some of us get cheated a little or maybe a lot. Regardless, the tongue keeps going, and a lot of the time is the wrong direction -- often to our embarrassment.

I'm a firm believer that we will be judged to a great degree on how we conquer the little member of our body, the tongue.

We use it to judge others, to lie, boast, slander, criticize.

But thankfully we use it correctly a part of the time, to encourage, to tell the truth, to express our love and concern for others. We can also use it thank someone for a good deed, to thank God for giving it to us, and to ask him to help us use it more correctly.

Howard Brennecke

Marble Hill