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Editor’s note
“No weapon formed against me shall prosper” Isaiah 54:17.
Life consists of obstacles that are placed in our path that we
must overcome. We are knocked down and pushed around but
never allowing these challenges to define you leads to suc
cess. My name is Cassidy O’Brien. 1 am the Whetstone’s new
Editor-in-Chief. I am a sophomore at Montreat and a member of
the girls’ basketball team. I want to thank Jim Shores and Todd
Runkle for this opportunity, I am looking forward to a great
year with the Whetstone. Stay strong Montreat fam, you’ve got
a long year ahead, good luck!
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calls us to use this power for
Solomon reveals here one of the
key ingredients to a wonder
ful, wholesome life, awesome
words. As college students,
life is not easy. Whether due to
homework, sport injuries, money
problems or that creepy sound in
your room that seems to have no
origin, life can be uneasy. Here
Solomon suggests words might
actually be the antidote to that
unhappy existence.
The nonsensical anti-bullying
chant, “Sticks and stones will
hurt my bones but your words
will not”, is probably one of the
greatest lies society has ever
ingested. Words rip us apart
down to our very soul. Christ
the ultimate goal of redemp
tion. Let our words lift people’s
souls, instead of burning down,
let us build with our tongues,
patching souls and mending
bones with the “deep magic” of
utterance. Not only should we
seek to enrich others with our
words but we are able to enrich
ourselves too. Read poems
and listen to music that speaks
positivity to the depths of you
and shake off those haters...!
mean problems. If we learn to
say we are beautiful, smart,
strong and awesome we are
literally putting into existence
what the creator thinks of us.
We were after all crafted
from words and are inevi
tably shaped and attracted
by them. Let not your
power run rampage, but
wield it in the redemptive
capacity Christ intends for
us as Christians.
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