Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Recipients and people

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There is a person reading the email

Do we think about what happens when we send an email?

A person reads it. They are not a ‘receipient’, but a living, breathing person.

This is someone made in God’s image and of great value in his eyes. This person has thoughts, feelings, fears, agendas, needs and wants of their own. These may or may not coincide, clash, overlap with ours.

How easy it is to rush through our email in-box in a frenzied desire to ‘deal, delegate, defer or delete’ in a ruthless task orientated manner.

And so we toss out replies, with barely a personal word anywhere, not bothering to correct typos and not considering the reader’s frame. I confess to all this and worse when in a high-output mode,

What to do? Slow down! Breathe! Think about the person! Correct the typos! And pause to pray for the reader and the subject matter before hitting send.

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