Sarcasm

Are your words doing more harm than good?


Let’s see, sarcasm better known as a taunting, sneering or mockery! Most always at someone else’s expense. Oh, one would say I’m just playing around I don’t mean anything by it! Our words are extremely powerful and capable of doing great harm. Words or behavior intended to make somebody or something look silly or ridiculous are wrong. We should be trying to lift one another up, not looking for ways to tear each other down.

Unfortunately this nature lies within a lot of us, unknowingly doing harm unintentionally. Do you ever find yourself on the receiving end of a snide remark? Just waiting to fire back and let them have it! Yes, we are human and it takes great restraints to ignore such comments! I’m not saying that words if used delicately couldn’t lighten up a tense situation, even bring laughter to an uncomfortable moment. But we must examine our reason for being sarcastic, and remember words are powerful and can impact someone for life! Remember the old saying “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”

Well, sad but true most people do not practice this principal and words are used as daggers every day. You can take the spirit right out of someone by just the utterance of a few words! Or you can build them up and leave them smiling! The choice is ours, and if we think, before we speak we can make a difference in such a changing immoral society! Turn on the television they are promoting sarcasm, the entertainment world thrives on it. Believe it, it is big business and we fall prey to it everyday. Therefore leaving us vulnerable and programmed by what we watch and let our children have access to. Children today are more sarcastic in their everyday life than years ago. Not so surprising when television is a babysitter. This holds true for adults as well, it seems to becoming the norm in households! This is a conscious effort we have to make everyday to coven ourselves accordingly and practice, to think before we speak. Even the bible has a lot to say about our words. Let’s look at Proverbs 17:28 “Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; when he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.”

There we are back to the old saying, “if you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all” We should work hard at being considerate of others, treating them the way we want to be treated and remember to choose our words wisely! We are as much as what we do, as what we say! Our Words should be that of affirmation! I leave you with this thought!
Proverbs 15:23 Everyone enjoys a fitting reply; it is wonderful to say the right thing at the right time!
God Bless,
Chatterbox
Copyright 1/26/08 Donna L. Maholage