As If The Whole World Is Listening

The written word has a lot of power. Even more so, perhaps, than the spoken word because it can be re-read, and re-read... and re-read. Especially on the internet, written words have a way of enduring well past their "best-before" date.

A blog is often written for a specific audience. This blog, for instance, is for my family and other homeschoolers and Christians. It probably won't appeal to an atheist who is the head of an education department.

But sometimes, someone else reads stuff. Sometimes, someone stumbles across a blog and finds something they weren't expecting. The book of Ecclesiastes cautions:

Do not curse the king, even in your thought;
Do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom;
For a bird of the air may carry your voice,
And a bird in flight may tell the matter.

This is even more true today than it was several thousand years ago, as the internet spreads our words far and wide. And so, it would be wise to speak as though the whole world is listening; write as though the whole world is reading. And consider carefully what our words are telling the whole world about who we really are.