In Charlotte Gambill’s podcast titled From Frustration to Fulfillment, she said that in many situations we are too quick to verbalise our upset.
She used hot potatoes to illustrate her point.
If you are handed a hot potato the first thing you are likely to do is drop it – after all, it’s hot.
We often do the same thing when something annoys us. We are quick to react, dropping our words and our anger on those around us. Our logic, like dropping a hot potato is it will feel better if we do.
Charlotte poses this question – “What happens to hot potatoes?”
They become cold potatoes.
If we can manage to wait and stay quiet when we are feeling hot under the collar, allowing time to cool down, we might just find that the words we thought we HAD to say, can remain unsaid.
It’s not easy but with God…
Help me, Lord, to keep my mouth shut and my lips sealed.
Psalm 141:3 (TLB)
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Amen! Keep the door of my lips Lord and help me to govern my tongue.
Jacqueline, I appreciate you sharing this. Whilst I am more likely to hold my tongue when someone offends me with theirs, whilst I’m in their presence, I am often guilty of blackbiting them once I’ve left the situation behind. A sin I am often having to repent of. Sigh.
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Oh I know what you mean. I often feel the prompting of the Holy Spirit to say “nothing” and I have to work hard not to share what seems like a tale to share.
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