Put Your Hand on Your Mouth

I searched my blog for the word "strife" and it has come up for the last two months. This will make it three. I think the proverbs about strife stick to my mind because strife can be found in all too many places. The key is to put an end to it.

"If you have been foolish in exalting yourself, or if you have devised evil, put your hand on your mouth. For as the churning of milk produces butter, and wringing the nose produces blood, so the forcing of wrath produces strife." - Proverbs 30.32-33

I like how this makes the point in a subtle "if, then" way. If we wring a nose, it bleeds. Duh. If the mouth is always exalting self, strife is the result. But there is at least one way to stop that kind of bleeding... cover with hand.