Good Company/Against Gossip

The Gossips by Daniel Ridgway Knight

“My idea of good company… is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation;
that is what I call good company.'

'You are mistaken,' said he gently,
that is not good company, that is the best.”

~ Jane Austen, Persuasion

Ah... good company, nothing is like it! The biblical term for this pleasure would be "fellowship" and it is something we are all encouraged to participate in. However, there is a danger in certain types of fellowship for it can foster poor conversation and our words which are so easily said, hold a lot of weight in our Creator's eyes.

"But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."~ Matthew 12:36-37

Such sobering words! What is a daughter of the King to do? Please continue reading at Deep Roots at Home where I am guest posting today…

This post may be shared with some or all of the following lovely link-ups: Modest Mom Monday's, Teach Me Tuesday, Domestically Divine Tuesday, Raising Homemakers, Wise Woman Link Up, and Deep Roots at Home. Thank you, dear ladies, for hosting these!

Finding Friends...

"A person is made better or worse by his friends. If they are well chosen and faithful they build up and make strong the best that is in one; but if they are unwisely chosen they drag down and destroy all that is pure within. For a man will be like his friends. Show me the friends of a girl, those whom she most appreciates, and I will tell you what kind of girl she is though I never see her. Good girls have friends who are pure, noble, sincere. Girls who are careless of their deportment and reputation have just the other kind. You will find them seeking friends among those who are light-minded. A girl cannot rise higher than the level of her friends. Either they will lift her up, or she will descend to their level."

"The safest girl is the one who makes her mother her most confidential friend."

~ Excerpts from Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale

"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise:

but a companion of fools shall be destroyed."

~ Proverbs 13:20

Against Evil Company

Against Evil Company

Why should I join with those in Play,

In whom I've no delight,

Who curse and swear, but never pray,

Who call ill Names, and fight.

I hate to hear a wanton Song,

Their Words offend my Ears:

I should not dare defile my Tongue

With Language such as theirs.

Away from Fools I'll turn my Eyes,

Nor with the Scoffers go;

I would be walking with the Wise,

That wiser I may grow.

From one rude Boy that's us'd to mock

Ten learn the wicked Jest;

One sickly Sheep infects the Flock,

And poisons all the rest.

by ~ Isaac Watts