What you say is very important. But how you say it is also very important. In fact, the meaning of what you say can be changed by how you say it!
Want proof? Just look at this simple sentence.
What you say is very important. But how you say it is also very important. In fact, the meaning of what you say can be changed by how you say it!
Want proof? Just look at this simple sentence.
You know those people who routinely get themselves in trouble because of their mouths? It’s like their jaws start flapping without their brains being engaged. While some think it’s impossible to speak without a brain, there’s at least one Scarecrow who’d disagree.
And he’s an authority on the subject.
“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.”
For most of us, learning proper syntax and correct grammar was as exciting as watching grass grow. We diagrammed sentences, studied subject/verb agreement…and hated every minute of it. But for Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young African girl caught in a civil war, learning English became a matter of life and death.
Ahhh…people. They can bring out the best in you…or the worst. If we’re honest, other people provide us with plenty of opportunities to say something mean or hurtful. Thankfully, some of us bite our tongue in those instances.
But here’s what it sounds like when people don’t.
Ahhh…people. They can bring out the best in you…or the worst. If we’re honest, other people provide us with plenty of opportunities to say something mean or hurtful. Thankfully, some of us bite our tongue in those instances.
But here’s what it sounds like when we don’t.
There’s a lot of difference between saying you believe something, and actually basing your life on that belief. Famed author and communicator Ken Davis claims to have developed a unique way of testing the difference between the two.
There are some conversations in life you can mess up…and still get by unscathed. However, there are also conversations in life, that if you mess up, you’ll pay for dearly.
One of those conversations is with police officers at a traffic stop.
Here’s the understatement of the century: men and women are different. The vast differences between the genders will either make a person laugh…or cry.
There’s nothing we can do to change things…so we might as well get a laugh out of our reality.