Salty words

A while back I memorized Colossians 4:6: "Let your speech always be filled with grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person." When you put salt on something, it makes it taste better and it's easier to digest. In the same way, when we speak - even when we're correcting our kids or lovingly confronting a friend - we need to do our best to say it in a way that makes it easy to receive and digest. I've never known anyone who became a Christ-follower because they lost an argument to a Christian who harshly slam dunked them with Bible verses and platitudes. But when that same truth is presented lovingly and graciously, it can potentially set a person on a different course for eternity.