DIVINITY WITHIN - Day 33 of 108 Days - " Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows. "

Day 33 - My mom had a favorite poem that she used to recite to me and wanted me to memorize it -
"I threw an arrow into the air, it fell to earth I knew not where,
I breathe a song into the air, it fell to earth I knew not where,
Long, long afterward in an oak, I found the arrow still unbroke
And the song from the beginning to an end, I found again in the heart of a friend."

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

I remember as a child (probably less than 7 yrs old), my mom did something that I didn't like or care for and I was so upset about it that I remember saying something like 'I wish you were dead' or 'I wish you die soon, if not right now'. And I remember hearing older siblings and other kids said the same thing. Where did we learn that? Definitely not from TV or radio or the newspaper. Was it inherent in us to utter such a dreadful curse on someone so near and dear to us? I could understand using poisonous words against someone because they already learned the art of meanness all throughout the years of growing up and constant interaction with the rest of the human race. But a child less than 7 yrs old, how does it know how to be mean - oh fine, perhaps I heard it from my older siblings but ... regardless, words really wound more fatally than arrows. And yet, as adult if we can't hurt the other person physically, we hurt them with words.

I met a physicist who have nothing but good words about his ex-wife and his ex-girlfriend. I can see a trace of sadness and hurt when he talked about how both ex decided to move on and left him and yet all he has are sweet words. How fascinating indeed. I remember my ex-husband is the same thing, everyone else tells me that he has nothing but good words about me and yet, at home, he seems to go out of his way to say mean things and verbally abuse me and my son.

I don't get it. We all know about all this good things and wonderful things that we are suppose to do and say. We all know about RIGHT ACTIONS, then why for goodness sake are we not practicing it. Why do we keep hurting one another? When will we ever learn, when, when, when?