{"id":3135,"date":"2010-04-15T07:28:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2011-10-01T08:08:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T13:08:42","slug":"proverbs-soap-ive-gotta-watch-my-tone-and-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/proverbs-soap-ive-gotta-watch-my-tone-and-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs SOAP: I’ve gotta watch my tone and words"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Chapter of Proverbs a Day…<\/h2>\n

Scripture: Proverbs 15:1<\/strong><\/p>\n

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Observation:<\/strong> I think this refers both to the actual words spoken as well as to the tone used.<\/p>\n

Application: <\/strong>I could do a better job watching my tone and thinking before I speak. Sometimes things come out sounding more aggressive and I intend for them to sound. I need to work on that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prayer:<\/strong> Lord, you know that I often convey a message of anger or frustration even when I don’t intend to do so. (Not that I ever should<\/em> intend to do so.)<\/p>\n

Please guide me in stopping myself in being quick to respond. Help me to think out my responses when I am angry, frustrated or feel wronged and respond with kind words and a kind tone. Help me to give gentle answers and responses always and keep harsh words and harsh tones from coming out of my mouth.<\/p>\n

As you say, those only stir up anger and make things worse. Even when I am angry, I should chose my words and tone carefully or else nothing will get resolved in a positive manner.<\/p>\n

Please guide me here. I need it.<\/p>\n

** I\u2019d love to have you join me in reading a chapter of Proverbs a day<\/a> in April. Feel free to jump in with today\u2019s date!<\/em><\/p>\n

For May and June, we’ll work our way through the Psalms. More details to come<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Chapter of Proverbs a Day… Scripture: Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Observation: I think this refers both to the actual words spoken as well as to the tone used. Application: I could do a better job watching my tone and thinking before I speak. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,18],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-3135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-proverbs","category-soap","tag-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9294,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/9294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}