Like Honey

"Kind words are like honey – sweet to the soul and healthy for the body."
Proverbs 16: 24 NLT

You determine your destiny. Are you happy and healthy? It may depend on your next sentence. Our words are powerful tools in the hands of our attitude. It isn’t easy controlling our responses with sick and cranky children. With laundry pilling up and unforeseen pressures from our whirlwind schedules - school, church, parent teacher meetings, and working outside the home. Would you like the secret to your spiritual and physical well being?

Try dipping your words in a honey solution. Honey has many purposes. Bees use it for food. You may use it as a sweeter to your cereal or tea. Honey changes the bitter taste of any food to a culinary delight. Kindly responses to harsh comments and critical actions produce honey sweetness in your soul. Those kind words change the flavor of that tense moment into an encouraging experience. Your honey dripping words reflect into the life of your children, husband, and friends. This practice removes the tension that produces unhealthy living and prolongs your life with happiness. You determine the quality of your day by your next response to a tense situation.

Why are harsh words so dangerous to our physical health? Our souls were made to commune with a gentle, merciful God. Verbal harshness directed at another demonstrates the opposite of gentleness. God always mixes correction with mercy. Humans have a tendency to mix correction with a superior attitude. We generally compare our standards of excellence with the behavior of others. If you practice verbal kindness, your soul overflows with sweet honey. Will your dip your words in a honey solution?

Copyright 2007 Patricia Charlton