Where is the Love? pt 2

Being aware that you may have no idea what people are going through is important.

One morning, exhausted with dulled motor skills from pain and trial, i was standing in an isle with a couple guy friends. At a loss for words, i tapped one of the guys to warn him that someone was coming through carrying a large object. He moved then turned to me and said sternly, "Use your words."

Yesterday i got into a debate with a guy at church. I pressed him about the topic but then we agreed to disagree. A little later i was told he had just had a death in the family. EPIC FAIL!

Unfortunately people don't come with 'Fragile' signs. So...

1 Thessalonians 5:11:
¹¹Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

Colossians 4:6: ⁶Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.

Colossians 3:8: ⁸But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.

Ephesians 5:19: ¹⁹speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;