“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:

When we read this verse, we often think about the words that come out of our mouths. But what if we also considered the conversations we have with ourselves? How many times have we stood in front of the pantry saying, “I’ll start tomorrow,” or “One more won’t hurt,” or even worse, “I’ll never be able to change.” Those internal conversations shape our choices just as much as the words we speak to others.

Paul tells us to let our conversations be full of grace. Grace doesn’t make excuses—it gives us the strength to begin again. When we slip, grace reminds us that one unhealthy meal does not define us. When we’re tempted, grace points us back to God’s power instead of our own willpower. Then Paul says our conversation should be seasoned with salt. Salt preserves, enhances flavor, and creates thirst. As believers, our words and our attitudes should preserve what is good and encourage life. Instead of craving foods that harm our bodies, we can ask God to help us develop a taste for the nourishing foods He created. Fresh fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, whole grains, and other wholesome foods become reminders that God desires abundant life for us, not just spiritually, but physically as well.

Salt is 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, including ourselves.  We should add the sparkle that allows the natural smiles, the skills and the abilities to come out.  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 friends, our co-workers and ourselves.  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