Gossip is so tasty—
how we love to swallow it!
—Proverbs 18:8 TEV
In a Reader’s Digest essay, William Arthur Ward wrote: “British surgeons recently removed two spoons, four coins, several pieces of wire, and a bed spring from the stomach of a 37-year-old Irishman.”
Now there’s a man with an appetite for the unusual.
Ward continued: “And in Italy, butchers found that a cow had swallowed 75 pieces of metal—including screws, a file, several bolts, and a key.”
No iron deficiency there.
Where was Ward going with this? Well, he wanted to know what you have been swallowing. A choice bit of gossip? An unfounded rumor? A pessimistic report about our young people?
The author concluded: “Nutritionists believe you are what you eat. So, be careful what you swallow.”
Cultivate a taste for the healthy stuff.