A mere word

God spoke to me this morning. Challenging it was. I decided to read the 14th chapter of Proverbs as this is the 14th day of March. Beware, the ides of March are tomorrow!

When I got to the 23rd verse it hit me like a sledgehammer. "All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty." It led me to set up a motto for my business, Brook House Enterprises: Work - Profit, Talk - Poverty.

Then I thought about the little word "mere". Do you know it has 13 different meanings according to the Oxford English Dictionary? One little word and all those meanings. Let my life not be mere talk but hard work. I wish. I pray...make me enterprising.