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=========================== TODAY'S ARTICLE ==========================
Always Saying the Right Thing, by Russ Lawson
Have you ever meant to say something that didn't come out just the way
you wanted it to? Being a preacher, it seems that I have a constant
problem of "foot in mouth." I have heard other folks do the same thing,
sometimes a complement that didn't come off just the way we wanted.
Sometimes a word of correction that came off much harsher than we had
intended.
I received this little story from a friend of mine in Missouri
(Raymond), which illustrates the problem.
A bashful young man asked a friend for advice on what to talk about
on a date. The friend said to flatter the girl, "Tell her when you
see her face, time stands still." What the rattled young man said
to his date was, "Your face would stop a clock."
I need constant reminding of that principle.
How do you get into messes like that, and more importantly, how do you
get out again? Most of the time, it is as simple as saying, "I'm sorry,
that was not what I meant to say."
Notice what Paul writes those who followed Jesus in his day:
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye
may know how ye ought to answer every man (Colossians 4:6).
"Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt ..."* I don't
know about you, but I need an almost constant reminding of that
principle. Why? Because I often don't do so well at accomplishing it.
May our God guide you in all that you think and say!
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* The phrase "seasoned with salt" does not mean "salty speech," which
comes from the concept of "speaking salty like a sailor (who sails on
salt water and the language used at sea is, well, salty)." Instead, the
phrase refers to being correctly seasoned like using the correct amount
of salt.
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(c) 2009 Russ Lawson <rlawson@wclo.net>, Messages from the Heart
<http://www.mfth.net/aboutus.html>. All rights reserved.
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* Words and the Internet
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* Wildfires!
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* Seasoned with Salt
http://www.heartlight.org/articles/200705/20070520_seasonedsalt.html
* Messages from the Heart
http://www.mfth.net/aboutus.html
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