One move left, and it is the hardest. Speak one blessing over the person you are most tempted to curse. You already see the face. The name that tightens your jaw.
“With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.” (James 3:9, ESV)
This week, with the same mouth that wants to curse them, you bless them. Out loud if you can. To them, or to God about them. This is the wrong use of power put right. You take the most dangerous thing you own, you aim it at the one person you would most like to burn, and you bless instead.
That is a small rudder turning a whole life a new way.
Go back to where the week started. You can still hear the cruel thing said to you, word for word, all these years later. A wrong word outlived the moment. Now turn it around. Your blessing can outlive the moment too. The same tongue that can burn a forest can plant one.
You cannot tame it. But you can hand it to Jesus, and He can aim it at love.
This is where the whole series lands again. We live our faith by doing the Word, not just knowing it. You have read about the tongue all week. Today you do one concrete thing with it. One blessing, spoken on purpose, is faith with a pulse. It is the smallest steering wheel you own, finally turned toward the One who made the person on the other end.
Today: Do it. One blessing, out loud, over the one person you are most tempted to curse. Then watch where the boat begins to turn.