{"id":1694,"date":"2009-08-19T07:14:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2016-08-19T05:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T12:27:00","slug":"just-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/just-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stared. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n

I was incredulous at the email. It was bad as a personal email. But sent to a multi-recipient list?!<\/p>\n

Wow! Somebody was having a bad day! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Not only had the email departed the sender’s mind ahead of any grace and tact, it projected itself as mind-bogglingly dumb. I don’t mean that unkindly or disrespectfully. I’m simply saying its cargo excluded basic common sense.<\/p>\n

The person who sent it issued a follow-up email 38 minutes later. It was an apology.<\/p>\n

Very good! God bless him for his honesty, humility, and integrity.<\/p>\n

But guess which email is more likely to be remembered?<\/p>\n

Yeah. Too bad.<\/p>\n

Words. Just words. Not sticks and stones, you know. But what dismay they can cause.<\/p>\n

Words. Just words. Too often I want to excuse mine. And attack the other guy’s (if I deem them ill-advised or outright bad).<\/p>\n

Words. Just words. But God doesn’t see the matter so lightly.<\/p>\n

He will judge me by my words.<\/p>\n

And by how they line up with His Word.<\/p>\n

So….<\/p>\n

“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart,
\nbe acceptable in thy sight, O LORD,
\nmy strength, and my redeemer.”
\nPsalm 19:14<\/div>\n

\"Pleasant<\/a><\/p>\n

Full of sweet, nourishing honey — not stinging bees!<\/p>\n

This whole deal was one of those wretched teachable moments (can we come up with a different term already?).<\/p>\n

The lesson above leaps forward as Number One (or more).<\/p>\n

Other lessons?<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Be slow to react to email. Come to think of it. Don’t react.<\/li>\n
  2. Be slow. There’s no rush. Especially if you’re having a trying day.<\/li>\n
  3. Email is forwardable. How far will yours go? That may not matter to you now, but it likely will in a day or two. Or in a minute or two. Or less.<\/li>\n
  4. Email lists have the added danger of being archived on the Web “forever”!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There. I don’t want to give them all. What other lessons do you see?<\/p>\n

    This was to post last evening…but I didn’t get back to my computer and the Internet in time.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    They’re evidence. Make them count for good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[72,859,880,949,909],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","tag-christianity","tag-email","tag-life-lessons","tag-social-media","tag-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}