When the Words We Use Hurt Someone Else
No one saw Debbie and her husband standing outside in the hallway. The door was not fully shut so they heard the couples chatting before the couple fellowship started. The meeting was late starting because everyone had not arrived. But the late arriving couple was early enough to hear Suzy a petite well-dressed woman's comments. "It I was Debbie's husband I would hire a private detective to find out where she is really eating all those calories she claims she never eats at home." The group laughed as the stunned couple in the hallway froze unable to go any further.
A Jack, a tall man with a small pouch for a stomach and loose fitting clothes, fueled the gossip fire. "Well, her husband works out with me at the gym and I heard he is there so much because he hates being at home."
Once again the group laughed. It seemed as if the group did not care how loud their laughter voice might be heard by the couple that had not yet arrived.
Too stunned and hurt to go in the couple outside the door turned quietly to walk down the hall to the exit door. Never to return to the group that was supposed to support and not step on their relationship.
Gossip, a deadly form of verbal abuse, had reared is ugly head, once again. Yet, the group doing the gossip probably did not realize that any one of them could have been outside of the door listening while others burned up their character with gossip. How do you react when you hear gossip about someone else? How do you recognize when you are the tormenter with this deadly torch. Many of us go along with the crowd and laugh. Yet, if confronted we would claim that we never gossip. If we agree in with laughter or silence we have often been part of the gossip. Just imagine if one in the group of couples said, "We really should not talk about them that way. Each one of us have our own issues and isn't that why we are here?" It is not until we take a stand to be the voice of kind and encouraging words do begin put out the hot fire of gossip.
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