The Tongue of the Wise Brings Healing

📝Reflection

With the same tongue we can cut a person or save one. This verse paints the two faces of speech as sword and medicine. A word carelessly spat pierces deep like a blade, and that wound outlasts a wound of the body. By contrast, the words of the wise become medicine that raises up the fallen. The curious thing is that healing words are not always sweet ones. Sometimes a bitter word carrying truth, offered with a heart to save, is the finest medicine. The material of speech is not knowledge but the heart turned toward the other. Whether I use my tongue as sword or medicine today is always mine to decide.