Blowing the dandelion seeds.

 Sometimes (or very often) we find ourselves listening to a friend, who heard from another friend, that "saw" your best friend speaking rumors about you. Our first reaction might be, "I can't believe I ever trusted him/her!" Now, HOLD the phone! How do we know if this is true? See, most of the time, we don't even bother figuring out if it is true or not. We just think "Oh well, if people are talking about it so much, then it must surely be true." Sadly, that is how trusts get broken and friendships are ended. But, what if we took another course of action? Let's give that friend a chance, surely there must be a reason behind all this! Maybe everyone has been wrong. That is where our little verse, Proverbs 25:8 comes in. "...If you take your neighbor to court, do not betray another's confidence." What I basically understand from this is, if you are mad someone don't just spill out all the secrets and things they have confided to you. Let's take this hypothetic story as an example, "Susie is mad at Emily because she heard that Emily had been spreading rumors about her. Without thinking twice about it, Susie tells everyone about Emily's secret crush on Jack but then the thing gets complicated when Emily comes to tell Susie that it wasn't her who was spreading the rumors." Words are like dandelion seeds. When you blow on a dandelion the seeds all fly away and may never be seen again, but when those seeds reach land more dandelions pop up. Same as words, Good ones fly away and spread to make the person happy or less self-conscious but gossip, rumors, and lies fly away to become even more dandelions. Who do YOU want to be? The one who asks his/her friend before saying anything OR the one who "Spreads the dandelion seeds" The choice is yours but remember, how would YOU like to be treated?