Relationships – Your Kith and Kin
Your Kith – wow, now that is an old fashioned word, hardly ever heard anymore – however, it is succinct in what I want to portray here – this is the group of people you interact with daily or at least most often. This includes the people on the job, your church family, your facebook buddies, at the health club or our children’s school. Basically, the social you.
And talking about old-fashioned, I guess we don’t use kinfolk that much either but here I am referring to our family – first and foremost, our spouse – next our children, and then extended family – including parents.
Each and every relationship you have makes an indelible impact on who you are as whole person. Our conversations with our intimates, of course, are the most impressionable but how we interact with others through the day also influences how we feel about ourselves at the end of the day … and ultimately, at the end of our life.
These interactions with others are food for our soul. It is what nourishes us or poisons us. Words are important but also the manner in which they are delivered and received. Certain conversations are remembered fondly for days and even years. Others are played over and over in our minds and end up hurting us every time. That’s just how we are made – our brains are these little, magnificent, terrible recorders of all we hear and are exposed to.
So, with this said I want to offer encouragement to all of us to watch our language! Be so careful with the words you utter today. Speak after thinking first and weigh your words, to see if what you are going to say is of any value. Are you going to help this person by what you say to them or are you going to add more burden to an already heavy load? We often don’t realize the importance of what we say.
We may say we’re not responsible for what others say to us but I propose that much of what we get aimed at us comes in direct response to what we give out. Think about your manner of speaking and then remember the times we’ve said one thing and our tone of voice changed the meaning completely.
Hmmmm …. yeah, I will be sharing a good bit on relationships and the primary thing I want us to remember here is…
Our WORDS matter – these precious conversations of daily life with each and every one of our Kith or Kin.
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