Leave the Fire Unfed
“For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife. The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, they go down into the innermost parts.”Proverbs 26:20–22
A message arrives with someone else’s private business inside it. We feel the pull to read closely, add what we know, and send it on. Perhaps we tell ourselves we are only sharing a concern. Yet before we have checked what is true or considered whom it might hurt, another person’s trouble has become something we consum...
