The deadly tongue

Lately my prayer has been that I will be more aware of the spiritual transactions I am making with my actions - that I won't ever think my sin harmless.
As some of you know, I carry on an e-mail conversation with 4 or 5 guys from Fort Stewart. My excuse always being that we went to war together, I can't just stop talking to them. We're friends!
But last week, after one such conversation, I logged off feeling really convicted. I had been ignoring conscience pings for weeks about this subject. But God said, "there it was, Kate. When you pressed send on that email, you allowed satan a foothold. Don't you know I abhor the tiniest sin as much as the worst?"
Later that afternoon, while reading 2 Timothy, I found at least 4 verses I felt the Lord wanted me to pay close attention to, the most prominent of which was verse 16, which reads, "Avoid godless chatter because Those who indulge in it become more and more ungodly."
And I realized that's true. I wonder why I'm not getting closer to God? Because I spend an hour in his word, five minutes in prayer and the rest of the day either watching TV and filling my mind with things of the world, or indulging in godless chatter.
So I'm cutting off the email conversation.