Tone

No, this post is not about "toning" up with my exercise. It is actually about tone in our everyday voice. I have noticed lately that how I react to someone, whether it be negative or positive all goes back to their intial tone.

There is a lady at school who speaks in a yell the majority of the time. We have a good relatinship, and I tell her often to stop yelling at me. She insists that she is not yelling she is just being passionate. Also, and I know I have mentioned this before, but the high school students I deal with everyday have no idea that my response to them is a direct result of their tone. For example, it just bugs me to death when a student says, "The computer won't let me log on." (Second post about this. Can you tell it bugs me?) When a student says this it just gets on my last nerve. On the contrary when a student asks "Can you help me log on? I am having some trouble", I am quick to jump up and assist them.

This all makes me think about my tone with others. No matter what the situation am I striving to be Christlike even with my tone? Those people I have a hard time dealing with, is it because of my tone. I do not like it when people say, "Oh that's just the way they are. They don't mean anything by it." If we are made in His image and are to be like Him, then no, that is not the way that they should be.

After realizing this this week. I am going to try my best to get my tone in check. Try to show the love of Christ to others. Even those pesky little high schoolers. :)

1 John 2:6
"Whoever says he adibes in Him ought to walk in the same way He walked."