[Faith-talk] FW: [ChristianChit-Chat] My Name is Gossip

[Eric Calhoun]

What powerful words.  My name is Eric Calhoun.


Original Message: 
From: TamilianPonnu <tamilianponnu at yahoo.com>
To: ?a??l?a??s??? <tamilianponnu at yahoo.com>
Subject: [ChristianChit-Chat] My Name is Gossip
Date: 
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:46:16 -0700 (PDT)

My name is Gossip 
I have no respect for justice. 
Honesty is not ME 
  
  
I break hearts and ruin lives. 
  
I am cunning, malicious and dangerous.  
I am used by all. I am a star 
The more I am quoted, the more I am believed. 
  
  
I flourish at every level of society. 
My victims are helpless. 

They cannot protect themselves 
against me because 
I have no name and no face. 
  
  
To track me down is impossible.  
The harder you try, the more 
 elusive I become. 
I am nobody's friend. 
  
  
Once I tarnish a reputation,  
it is never the same. 
  
  
I topple governments and 
wreck marriages. 
I ruin careers and cause 
sleepless nights, heartaches 
and indigestion. 
  
  
I spawn suspicion 
 and generate grief. 
I make innocent people cry 
 in their pillows.  
  
  
Even my name hisses. 
I am called GOSSIP. 
Office gossip 
Shop gossip 
Party gossip 
Relationship gossip 
 Telephone gossip 
  
I make headlines and 
 headaches. 
  
REMEMBER, 
you repeat a story, 
 ask yourself: 
is it true? 
Is it fair? 
Is it necessary?? 
 If not, do not repeat it. 
KEEP QUIET. 
  
  
"He who gossips to you will gossip about you"