don’t have to kill a person physically in order to ruin their life forever. Myriads of people have been wiped out by words. Proverbs 6:2 says, “You have been trapped by the words of your lips—ensnared by the words of your mouth.” Our words can trap us. They can get us into situations we never should have gotten into. They can bind us in commitments we never should have made. The tongue can heal, or it can harm: “The tongue that heals is a tree of life, but a devious tongue breaks the spirit” (Proverbs