You and I want to be people to whom God can entrust a spiritually powerful voice. Let's allow the Holy Spirit to alert us to some misuses of the tongue that can greatly diffuse its spiritual effectiveness: * Gossip * Lying * Profanity * Perversity * Rudeness, unkindness, or disrespect * Criticism * Breaking a confidence * Negativism and complaining * Inappropriate humor, including off-color jokes or humor that demeans people * Misuse of God's name