25/08/2026
American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote: “words – so innocent and powerless, as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them! “
Ephesians 4:29 do not let any unholy talk come out of your mouth, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs. 
I have been revisiting Ephesians chapter 4 quite frequently lately… The word unwholesome in this context refers to rotten fruit.
What if we pictured the conversations we had as those that are bearing actual fruit…
Is the fruit that we are giving to the people we are having conversations with: healthy, ripe, plump looking fruit… Or does it reveal rotten putrid fruit? Imagine how much would change in the words that we say, or the things that GROW from the fruit we are giving, if we change some of the fruit we are handing out.