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My brothers, my sisters, you and I know

that with the challenges we face on the globe at the moment, life is not so easy.

Many of the children, many of the teenagers, brothers, sisters, men, women,

fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, brothers, sisters, whatever it may be,

going through great hardship and difficulty. But what becomes more difficult is

when we address them, sometimes we are not conscious of what they are going

through in their lives. So the words we use with them in order to guide them,

correct them, say something to them, make matters worse. And it is for this

reason that before you say something to anyone, it is your duty as a believer to

weigh your words, to consider what you are about to say, to put yourself in

the shoes of the person or the people you are addressing for a moment to think

where they come from, what they might be going through right now, how their

childhood was, perhaps something about their parents, maybe, perhaps what might

have happened to them as they grew a little bit older, perhaps where they live

and the conditions financially of their family, perhaps some other struggles that

may be, were they revered or not and what they might have faced in their lives,

because they may have come a long way from where they were, but our words do

not take that into consideration. And so we think that this is not good enough,

not realizing they've made progress in leaps and bounds, surely we should be

thinking of that. So one of the duties of a believer is whenever you speak to

anyone, make sure that you put yourself in their shoes for a moment, think for

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