Tuesday, July 12, 2011

How we talk to each other

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 4.6

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4.29

Thinking and praying these days about how to be engaged in conversation with people in the hospital in a way that is 'full of grace, seasoned with salt' rather than business-as-usual: sarcasm and off-colored humor. How do I bring humor and good conversation in a way that is neither heavy/unnecessarily serious nor vacuous?

God, grant me sincerity of speech this week.

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