We may all be sitting at the same table but eating out of different plates. With what life deals us, we do not all have our plate filled with the same things. We carry our own burdens and may hide our secret pain. Be careful what you say and be careful how you respond, so that you do not add to someone’s load. If you want to help, listen carefully, love kindly, avoid being judgmental, be gentle and patient; in these ways you can be a healing agent for Jesus. And, by the way, you will probably be doing this while your plate is full also.
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:29-32 (KJV)
(Thanks to those who share these with a friend.)
