![]() What could be easier than social media for saying every thought that enters our heads without using a mental filter first? How much trouble can we get into with this? LOTS, that’s how much. This chapter will only become more and more important as time goes on and newer social media outlets pop up in addition to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well as email. But when we soften our hearts with love for others, and toughen our skins against their barbs, we are better equipped to show the compassionate love of Jesus to a watching world.”Ĭhapter 6 talks about Behind The Screen, Controlling Your Digital Tongue We are slurping on a smoothie of poison, and don’t even know it. “When we harden our hearts and let every little offense poke a hole in our happiness, we only hurt ourselves. When I saw this paragraph in the book, I highlighted it and wrote RIGHT? next to it…I’m a person who allows my feelings to be hurt very easily, I felt she wrote this just for me… Now flip these ideas we have been talking about…what about when we are the target of someone else’s hurtful words? What do we do? The only thing to do as Karen suggests is to be tough skinned and tenderhearted. Karen’s suggestions for finding more time for scripture include investing in a pocket Bible, listening to the Bible on cd in the car and getting a Bible app for your smartphone. ![]() Have these moments been preceded in spending ample time with God? Often when we replay past conversations in our minds, we see the hurt that we may or may not have intended. It goes back to spending time with God’s word and filling our hearts and mouths with righteous words and thoughts. ![]() Instead we should be letting God’s words shape our hearts. In addition to examining our motives, we also need to think about our sly tongues and how speaking in vague or misleading terms is dishonest. In this chapter Karen urges us to examine our motives realizing that we can fool ourselves into thinking those words were helpful but we can’t really fool God. Have you ever said something that was completely true but the reason why you said it was really just to hurt the person you were speaking with? Maybe just a little? A tiny jab or mention of something they did but maybe could have done better? When you think back on that experience, were those words, delivered in that way, truly helpful or necessary? “Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them.” (Proverbs 29:20). Ah yes, we are learning to speak the truth but warned to watch our delivery of those words. You can find links to weeks 1 & 2 on that post as well.Ĭhapter 5 has everything to do with Motives and Manners. If you missed the post on chapters 3 & 4, you can find it here. Karen Ehman – a woman whose words have often landed her in a heap of trouble – shares from experience the hows (and how-not-tos) of dealing with the tongue.Welcome back to the blog miniseries on Karen Ehman’s book, Keep It Shut. Got words? Oh yeah, you do! The average women speaks over 20,000 a day – not to mention the ones she types online. ![]() Using biblical examples, as well as Karen’s own personal (and sometimes painful!) stories, KEEP IT SHUT will equip you to know what to say, how best to say it, and when you’d better just keep your lips zipped! What the Bible teaches about making our speech laced with grace, as sweet as honey, and yet seasoned with salt.How to avoid saying something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off.How to pause before you pounce, attacking the problem but not the person.A helpful grid for using our digital tongue as we talk online or on social media.The difference between gossip and properly processing with a trusted friend.Karen Ehman – a woman whose words have often landed her in a heap of trouble – shares from experience the hows (and how-not-tos) of dealing with the tongue. Maybe it’s time you adopted a new rule of tongue. Your mouth ever gotten you in a tangled-up mess? ![]()
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