More on some positive principles on how to speak words of life and light. I will try to speak for myself. These are all ideas that need more practice and drama.
2. If you I haven’t mastered principle # 1, keep quiet and go back to 1.
3. Be slow to speak.
Whatever canned words are in my head are not likely to be what the other person needs to hear. Whatever comes quickly is likely related to some button of mine that was pushed rather than coming from a place of exceptional love and mercy. The process of having something quick to say is likely preventing me from really hearing and seeing the situation. Rather than thinking of what to say, I should be doing some dichotic listening, one ear on the person and the other listening for the whisper, which is easily drowned out by the scripts running through my head. Any words that I have to say that will be half-way meaningful will come from those two sources. One or both of those sources may actually be speaking words of life and light to me, so I need to shut up and listen. While I listen for the whisper, there may not be one, in which case I should keep quiet.
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