Encouragement

I am currently preparing tomorrow morning's devotional talk for my year group and I decided to talk on encouragement and encouraging others.
Instead of preaching a sermon to a group of Theology Students, I decided to move to the more practical side of things and introduce an idea birthed at Capernwray. Namely pidgeonholing.
It was one Wednesday night at Sharing Time when the idea of putting notes in people's pidgeonholes was proposed. What a friggin' awesome idea! I wish I had thought of it...

Anyways, as most of you have experienced, the people in this here country are not the most encouraging or optimistic people around, but the words that spill out of our mouths can be naturally quite critical at times. In his lectures at the Hall, Hans Peter said it was a typically European thing. (Anyone else remember that?). For many of the British, speaking words of encouragement is a foreign concept and one which must be practiced after it has been imported into the British department of thinking.
So, after struggling through various pieces of scripture to dwell on for this talk, I decided to give up and come online. However, the daily scripture at the top of this page was highly appropriate today.

The NLT version reads better:

Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. -Eph.4:29

I hope this encourages you to build others up with what you say!