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You ever think about this? Let your yes be yes and your no be no.

That's something my mom used to tell me.

What did it mean?

So what was the context for that? In what way?

Well the context that she used it was that I was always saying way too many words instead of just yes I am going or no I'm not.

Okay so I was just reading about that and some scholars saying Jesus is urging us to state what is actually the case without embellishing or distorting things in any way.

Jesus knows all our little embellishments or attempts to manipulate situations or coerce others.

I'm sure that's what you meant.

Yeah it's just a little spin.

Yeah which we can do to ourselves.

Yes that's true that's true.

That's actually pretty good challenge for work or whatever day you've got going on or whatever you've got to go on.

Like no embellishments, no distortions.

Yeah.

It's this, that's it.

It's a pretty good practice.

We have a reminder for you and the reminder is this.

Reminders is, you need reminders.

We need reminders all the time.

Our brains do not work like we think they do.

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