Positive Graffiti | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | Decembr 2, 2025
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The soothing tongue is a tree of life. |
| 0:03.9 | Proverbs 15.4. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:11.9 | Positive graffiti was written by Tim Gustafson and read by Stephen Tabor. |
| 0:21.6 | Proverbs chapter 15 verses 1 through 4 and 23 through 28. |
| 0:27.4 | A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. |
| 0:33.8 | The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly. |
| 0:40.5 | The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good. |
| 0:46.0 | The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit. |
| 0:52.9 | And now picking up at verse 23. A person finds joy in giving an apt reply, |
| 0:59.8 | and how good is a timely word. The path of life leads upward for the prudent, to keep them from going |
| 1:06.8 | down to the realm of the dead. The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow's boundary stones in place. |
| 1:15.8 | The Lord detests the thoughts of the wicked. |
| 1:19.1 | But gracious words are pure in his sight. |
| 1:22.4 | The greedy bring ruin to their households, but the one who hates bribes will live. The heart of the righteous |
| 1:29.9 | weighs its answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil. Positive graffiti, written by |
| 1:39.5 | Tim Gustafson. As a young man, journalist Sebastian Younger traveled the United States and wrote about it. |
| 1:47.4 | One day in the 1980s, he entered a restroom in the Florida Keys and found hateful graffiti |
| 1:52.8 | scrawled on the walls. Most of it targeted Cuban immigrants. But one message, apparently from a |
| 1:59.1 | Cuban, stood out. |
| 2:01.4 | It read, |
| 2:06.2 | Thank God, the rest of the people in this country are warm and caring, |
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