Focus Point
Before You Speak, THINK
I recently read a story of a father playing with his young
daughter in the yard. The father picked up a dandelion that had gone to seed
and turned into a white puff, and asked his daughter to blow on it. Sure enough
all of the little seeds blew everywhere and they laughed together at how easy
it was for them to scatter in a hundred different directions. Then the father
asked her to go pick them all back up. She looked at her father as if he were
crazy, and said "I don't know where they are!" Then the father taught
an important lesson about the tongue. He told her that once we let words go out
of our mouths, they are like the scattered seeds; we cannot get them back, no
matter how hard we try.
This weeks message is to inspire our hearts in relation to
the words that we use. Is what you say True? Withholding information,
misleading others with our words, or a lie of course, takes a person away from
truth not toward it. Does what you say Help others by lifting and building
them? Is your communication Inspiring? Does it breath belief and encouragement
into the lives of others? Is it Necessary, or best left unsaid? And finally is
it Kind?
I believe that we can help create the environment around us
by the words that we use and the tones
which we choose. One day you will be only a memory for some
people, do your best to make it a good one.
This week let's THINK. Is my communication:
True?
Helpful?Inspiring?
Necessary?
Kind?
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