Demon 1: Words Do Hurt
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things . See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is to set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on the fire the course of natur e; and it is set on fire by hell. — J ames 3:5 – 6, NKJ While in elementary school, my mother and I had an outrageous argument. It isn’t one of those arguments where I scream and shout until my lungs burn from anger and my eyes are swollen from stinging tears. It’s one those verbal fights that leave me scarred for a lifetime. It’s one of those fights that lingered in the back of my mind years after I proclaimed forgiveness of such a hateful phrase. It’s a defining moment in testing my absolute inner self, in knowing that nothing in this world is more important than believing in myself. My mother told me, “You’re not smart enough to go to college.” In that moment my world changed. At a whopping six-years