Soft Spoken...

So I recently got sick and began to lose my voice. If you know me, I'm a talker and I love to sing often, especially while in the car ;) As I was having this experience of having less of a voice, I noticed that the way that I sounded and had to communicate required a bit more tender loving care. I had to physically get closer to people or sometimes get help from another person who could more loudly convey the message for me ;) To my dismay, I actually discovered that I probably should have been speaking more in that softer tone all of the time. Sadly it wasn't until I had this happen that I could see that preferrably nurturers speak in that softer tone. We have been counseled that, A soft answer turneth away wrath (Proverbs 15:1). I had always thought of it being in those being spoken to.
I see all around me constantly that out of every negative situation can come something far greater, if you look for it and allow it. Here I was with this, what I felt was limited, ability to communicate. In it there was this realization that I could even CHOOSE to speak with a softer tongue in general.