Go to the closet and get a wire clothes hanger. Now put a few bends in it with your hands. Now straighten it out to what it looked like when you pulled it from the closet. You'll never get it perfect (although if I know James he will try it just to prove me wrong). And the more you bend it, the harder it is to get it even close.
Our words are the same. When we speak in anger or spread gossip it's just like bending the hanger. And the more anger there is, or the more hurtful the gossip, the harder we have to work to try to make things right. And even then the relationship is never the same as it was before.
You can't put the hanger back because your alter the molecular bonds in the metal when you bend it. Hurtful speech also alters bonds, and in some ways, on a molecular level.
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