Shielded

1 peter 3:12-13

God listens to those who seek him, men and women after his own heart. he listens to their prayers and sets his scowl against those evildoers who seek to harm his precious children. he's is their protector as shield in bad times and their ultimate cheerleader in good ones. if you're eager to do good who will be able to hurt you effectively?

don't seek to injure anyone or say things against them. it strikes me just now that I said things about a certain arrogant individual that I should have bit my tongue on. it wasn't THAT big a deal and even though I was irritated it would have been better to say nothing and refrain from anything gossip like. in the future I will not be relating my particular experience with that individual because it's irrelevant. The lord says to seek good and spread goodnes and then harm will be hard to come by. words can hurt and if my words aren't building someone up they essentially default to a destructive mode. so may I cease that