Communication

Communication is fourteen percent words, thirty-five percent tone, and fifty-one percent nonverbal. This shows that most of what we say really isn't conveyed through our words but through our body language and tone of voice. When we communicate we send an idea, thought, or emotion and then the other person has to decode our message and then send their idea, thought, or emotion. If anything is misread then it can become very complicated, especially over text or e-mail. We must give the person the benefit of the doubt and assume the best (within experience). We must be patient, kind, generous, and compassionate. The best communication advice you will ever find is not from me. It is found in the Bible, in the New Testament, in Ephesians, Chapter four, verses twenty-nine through thirty-two. It reads, "(29) Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. (30) And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. (31) Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: (32) And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."