“Season your words, not your food”

Let your conversation always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. Colossians 4:6

Verse Reflections:  What if I spent the same amount of time thinking about my words as I spend thinking about my food?  I can spend thirty minutes in the grocery store looking for foods to prepare for the upcoming week.  Then I spend five to ten minutes each morning deciding about breakfast, and coffee.  I usually take a second to decide if I want to unthaw a meat for the evening.  What if I took that same ten minutes in the morning to think about words to uplift my husband, to change his day?  What if I thought about what phone calls I could make to uplift someone going through a tough time?  I can be very direct in my words.  I need some salt of grace and love added to my words.   When I think of salt, I think of a seasoning that allows the natural flavors coming out.  Maybe that is what our words should do.  Our words should encourage the natural flavors, the natural skills, the natural goodness to come out of the people we speak to.  We should add the sparkle that allows their natural smile, their skills and their abilities to come out.  We don’t have to be right.  We don’t have to be intelligent.  We don’t have to be the boss.  We do have to represent God.

This is a great verse reminding us to focus on our internal selves, not our external selves.  We need to season our conversation with grace today.  As we season our foods, let’s think about the words we will share with our families, our friend and our co-workers.  Let us look for the positive, forgiving any perceived transgressions.  That is what grace is.  I find that if I have a lightness of being verses depression it is easier for me to eat healthy.   This verse reminds us that if we spread sunshine through our words, if we extend grace, we will probably have sunshine in our souls, a lightness of being that gives us the grace to eat right.  Today we are going to eat God foods and we are going to say God words.  And don’t forget to have fun exercising.

 

Prayer:  Father, so often I forget that my eating habits are an extension of who I am inside.  Please season my words with the salt of grace.  Protect me from myself and allow me to nurture, to encourage, to extend life and light through my words.  Give me the desire to add a little sparkle to my words today.  Give me that lightness of being that helps me want to eat right.  As I prepare my God foods today, as I add seasonings to my coffee, my foods, allow me to pray over the words that I speak.  Let me season my words with the same enthusiasm I am seasoning my foods.

Did you know:  At each meal, include fat, fiber and protein.  Fiber makes you feel full quickly, protein makes you stay full and fat works with the hormones in you body to tell you stop eating.  Harvard Medical School