Let Your Speech Be Seasoned with Salt

📝Reflection

In antiquity, salt was precious—it preserved food from spoiling and gave it flavor. Paul likens speech to salt. As too little salt leaves food bland and too much makes it inedible, balance matters in speech too. Warmth with no substance is empty, and even a right word, if only salty, cannot be swallowed by the other. I have often sickened people by insisting on "telling it straight." Good speech must match both content and temperature—like a pinch of salt, accurate yet in a measure the other can take in. That balance is the wisdom of speech.