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The tree sat silent, the sound from a backyard argument pierced it’s bark.  The waves of sound vibrated the fibers of the bark so slightly that no scientific instrument could measure it.  And those fibers remain as the tree grows.  There will come a day when that tree falls from age.  Yet those fibers will have been altered forever.  Though they rot and become food for the forest behind the lot where that house had stood, 300 years from now God will know what was done.

The men will have forgotten.  The words will not be found echoing between two mountains forever.  The air will absorb their noise quickly.  But God remembers.  Their hearts overflowed with anger.  But those hearts are now silent.  The bark was moved.  But now that bark is dust.  The bugs on and in that piece of bark also experienced something from the noise of their argument, as well as the grass.  All will die and rot, yet God remembers.

Consider what is around you and consider how everything we do is witnessed.  Yet there is a witness beyond this world.  It is wise to consider what we allow our hearts to hold, lest it overflow from our tongues.

³⁴You offspring of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil (wicked)? For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks.

By His Grace.