Communication FUNdamentals

Today is the Global Day of Prayer.  According to an article on Breaking Christian News,

“In July 2000 God captured the heart of a South African Christian businessman, Graham Power, with a vision based on 2 Chron. 7:14. The vision had three clear instructions:

To call Christians from all denominations in Cape Town for a Day of Repentance and Prayer at Newlands Rugby Stadium.

To challenge Christians across the rest of South Africa to unite in a Day of Repentance and Prayer.

To challenge Christians in Southern Africa to unite in a Day of Repentance and Prayer.

In March of 2001 more than 45,000 Christians united for a Day of Repentance and Prayer at Newlands Rugby Stadium in Cape Town. It was a day of intense intercession that transformed lives and was reflected in a changing city in the months to come. “

So this Defending the Faith SONday, let all Christians unite in prayer.  Let’s all pray for understanding to foster discussion, for blessings and peace and for all of God’s children to come to a saving knowledge of Christ and a hope in Heaven.  Amen.

“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.” -Will Rogers

I think “rutabaga” comes close!

My brother and his wife are having their second baby.  It’s a boy.  They have asked that the family keep the name suggestions to ourselves.  I guess we all got a bit overwhelming with the suggestions for their first child and they’d like to do this one SOLO.  Here’s what started the whole family naming ritual…

We already had a name picked out if our first child was a boy:  Christopher Ryan.  And it was supposed to be a boy.  She was supposed to be a boy.  The doctor told us she was a boy, but on the off chance she wasn’t a boy, we needed a girl’s name!

My folks, well actually my mom, was a HUGE help in naming our daughter.  You see…what my husband called “traditional”, I called BORING and what I called “unique”, he called WEIRD!  I was eight months pregnant and it was apparent that, unless we found something soon that was not weird or boring, Baby Girl Tabares was going to appear on her birth certificate! Thankfully my mom had just seen an episode of L.A. Law where “Ann Kelsey” married “Stuart Markowitz” and had a baby: “Kelsey Markowitz”.  Kelsey was apparently unique without being weird.

Reminiscing about naming our daughter, we remembered a suggestion my father had for us, just in case we didn’t like Christopher for a boy.  It’s been a family joke for 19 yrs and I thought you might get a kick out of it today for Friday Funnies.  It helps if you say it with a New York accent:

Horace Morris Tabares

Do ya think they have a support group for this?

A new friend I met on Facebook posted quite a profound observation!  It was so astute, I had to post it here on Communication FUNdamentals.

We were talking about how folks tend to say things on the web they would never say in person because they don’t need to look their “victims” in the eyes.  Then she talked about how we sometimes aren’t brave enough to say the things that need to be said in person because they are looking at us while we do.  What the world needs is more who act upon this principle.

“People need to learn to be brave in person and shy on the web.” -BeckyJoie Thombs Oaks

I Love Language

By Lucy Linguist and Ethel the Editor

Lucy and Ethel loved language and so
they decided to teach on a humorous show

how to say what you mean and mean what you say
and edit your words in an eloquent way!

Good communication: bless those around you
and a word aptly written never fails too

so come one and come all from near and from far
and learn what great language lovers we are!

Join Lucy and Ethel each Thursday morning
For “I Love Language” and gracious warnings

Then you can say as success builds in thee
I love language and now it loves me!

Grace Talk Soup airs each Thursday 8am PST/11am EST

Here: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/19736

May Grace Talk Soup Defending the Faith Contest Rules:

Help us promote this show and you could win: Say What You Mean Defending the Faith!  It’s this easy!

1. Post the Grace Talk Soup link encouraging others to join us on the live show to your Twitter orFacebook page, your blog, newsletter, website, Yahoo group, etc.

2. Email gts@artofeloquence.com and give us the link where you posted it or just tell us where you posted it and we will enter you in this week’s contest!

Winner will be announced on the show!

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Last week of the Grace Talk Soup Defending the Faith Mini Series:

This Thursday is the last day of our first ever mini series! Three parts of the Defending the Faith Mini Series are already available as audios for your listening pleasure: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/19736

Just scroll down to Past Episodes and click the orange “listen” button next to the one you want to hear. So far we have answered the following issues:

~Introduction:”Why we should learn to share and defend our faith?”

~”I’m a good person; why do I need God?”

~”Men wrote the Bible and men make mistakes”.

This Thursday is the last in the series and we will be answering the issue “What about all the horrible things done in Jesus’ name?”

Come join us live Thursday 8am PST/11am EST and invite those you know to come share their thoughts on this very special episode of Grace Talk Soup. http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/19736

I wanted to create something to post for Memorial Day that blessed and honored our fallen heroes.  One thing lead to another and I found this staring back at me from across the computer.  It struck me in an instant that our military are so much like our Savior.  They are willing to give everything for the rest of us.  Some did!

Others are out there right now and are ready and willing to give everything for our country and others they are protecting.  And their families are heroes too because they are sacrificing so much so that these brave men and women can  be willing to sacrifice all.  This is for each of them.  From everyone at Art of Eloquence, we express our deep appreciation and send our prayers!

This is christian comedian, Michael Jr.’s testimony.  He is so funny and this is a creative way he shares about when he accepted the Lord.

“Do your best to communicate effectively while giving grace to others who misstep. Remember: when we put our best foot forward, we have yet to take another step.”

Yesterday on Grace Talk Soup, I was talking about how seriously the scribes were about copying the Bible and how amazingly accurate it is.  I mentioned how difficult it is to proof your own work and how even with a good editor, it’s hard not to find an error.

I shared how my daughter found some errors on Stanford University’s website.  What I didn’t have time to mention is this very funny picture we found of one of the SAT prep books we considered purchasing for her.

Can you spot why we didn’t?

Communication errors can cost!