it is what that comes out

Wednesday August 20th, Matthew 15: 10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand. 11 What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.' We can at least control to some degree what goes into someone’s mouth. We can have our rituals and traditions, which can be rich in meaning and history, which can help us connect to the love of God, which can convey comfort and grace and forgiveness, but in the end they are only tools. We cannot control what comes out. In the long list Paul gives us of what comes out, we tend to focus on the sex. Yes John, Bill and Larry blew it with the sex, but George and Dick and many others have brought about the deaths of thousands with stories of yellow cake and war on terror. Some have moved toward healing by at least confessing their lies.