Words
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
There’s a consulting firm near Geneva that has several well-known international companies as clients. The firm must write up reports in English and send them to these companies. Often they are just personality profiles or simple interview summaries. A couple times a week, I receive reports and do a quick read-over, correcting a handful of mistakes, turning a phrase, making a few francs.
I discussed one of the reports by phone with a good-guy consultant. If you ever need someone to gently correct you, this is the man to do it. Intelligent. Huge heart. Sympathetic. Excellent language skills… Just sometimes he has difficulty getting his thoughts down on paper.
Back to the phone call… After 20 minutes working on some phrasing, I asked him: Does it really matter if we use the right word? And he answered back, without hesitation:
What we say makes a difference.
Some of my friends are struggling with that. Some are bloggers. Some are teachers. Others are parents, preachers (or preachers’ wives). But just remember… I’ve got a consultant friend who believes that…
What we say makes a difference.
… and a Spirit-filled message that says: Let all your words be uplifting, filled with truth.
I discussed one of the reports by phone with a good-guy consultant. If you ever need someone to gently correct you, this is the man to do it. Intelligent. Huge heart. Sympathetic. Excellent language skills… Just sometimes he has difficulty getting his thoughts down on paper.
Back to the phone call… After 20 minutes working on some phrasing, I asked him: Does it really matter if we use the right word? And he answered back, without hesitation:
What we say makes a difference.
Some of my friends are struggling with that. Some are bloggers. Some are teachers. Others are parents, preachers (or preachers’ wives). But just remember… I’ve got a consultant friend who believes that…
What we say makes a difference.
… and a Spirit-filled message that says: Let all your words be uplifting, filled with truth.
