Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. Colossians 4:6
School has started, so I’m back to pushing my four children to strive to do well on their homework assignments and tests. Nagging them all evening and weekends makes for an unhealthy relationship with my kids. I’ve memorized this verse, saying it to myself each morning to keep it engraved on my heart so that my words to them may be with grace, encouraging them in love.
During the day, I work in an elementary school building with over five hundred K, 1st, and 2nd graders. On a regular basis, I am encouraging students to make better choices regarding their behavior. I have a lot of opportunity to practice this verse! I pray that my admonishments are always with grace.
However, this verse doesn’t just mean the words from my lips. It also applies to what comes from my fingertips. Oh, how easy it is to quickly type out an email and send it, only to regret seconds later what I said. I’ve slowly been training myself to read and reread emails that I’ve written before hitting the send button.
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Wonderful reminder for something I've been convicted about this week.
ReplyDeleteThank you!! I printed off the verse to put in my kitchen windowsill. God was really working on me with how I talk to my children this weekend. He reminded me that the way I speak to them now, will be how they speak to my grandchildren someday. ;) My tone and words will echo throughout the generations...
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