Seasoned with Salt

           When the great American composer, George Gershwin, passed away, a man who possessed more affection for Gershwin than he did musical ability decided to compose a musical elegy in Gershwin’s honor. Upon completion, he sought entertainer and composer Oscar Levant for an appraisal of his work.

            Eagerly, the neophyte played his piece for Levant, praying for Levant’s approval. He was disappointed.

            “I think it would have been better,” Levant told him, “if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.”

            I wonder if Paul had speech like this in mind when he wrote that Christians should fill their conversations with grace and “season them with salt.”

            Story source: Edmund Fuller

Sticks and Stones

           An old joke I love goes like this:

Two trucks loaded with a thousand copies of ROGET’S THESAURUS collided as they left a New York publishing house last Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied...

            Words do matter. An ill-timed word can wound forever. That’s one reason Paul wrote, “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone”(Col. 4:6.)