In the last several weeks, many of us have spent more time at home in closer contact with our families.

And let's be honest, sometimes we've said hurtful things to one another. Why do our words matter so much?

Here's Mary Cassian. Have you ever considered that unkind, ill-tempered speech actually grieves God's Holy Spirit.

Just let that sink in for a moment.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamus, co-author of True Woman 101, Divine Design.

For April 14, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Music divine design. For April 14th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh. Mary Cassie is a longtime friend of Dana's and mind, and she's a good friend of Reviver

Hearts. And she's our guest teacher this week in a series called

The Power of Transformed Speech. Mary is a wife, mom, she's a grandmom, she lives in Canada.

She's written several books, including a Bible study workbook called Conversation Peace. That's

P-E-A-C-E. Yesterday, Mary showed us that what we say with our tongues

reveals what's under the surface. So the question is, how do you remove and replace those

sinful attitudes that you find lurking in your heart? Mary's back to talk about that today.

My mother was a terrific gardener,

and she had this amazing vegetable garden, and when all of us kids grew up, and we didn't need the

produce of that garden anymore, she said to my dad, cover it up. And he did, covered it up with grass. But then the next

summer, she got out a spade and she pulled out my dad and she went around the edge of the garden

and kind of made this nice curvy line around the edge of the yard. And then she started to plant

flowers. And she has this amazing, amazing flower garden that is just beautiful at any time of the

summer you go. It's an amazing flower garden. And I seem to have caught a little bit of the bug in the

last few years it took me many decades to get there but I've started to enjoy gardening and enjoy

the beauty of flowers and just the beauty of all the vibrant colors The most beautiful garden that I've ever seen

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