Text Grace

I find myself getting frustrated when interacting with others through texts. I have a flip phone, by choice, so it takes me a long time to push all the keys to get to the right ones to spell out the words I'm using. It takes me about 15-20 minutes to key a text and a half. So, why do I do it if it frustrates me? Well, I found that many will read a text instead of an email. Also, it's handy, because I don't always have access to email.

I have found that several of those with whom I interact by texting, only read a little bit of the text before responding. It is very obvious in their reply, that they didn't read the things that I had so painstakingly keyed in to give them all the information they needed.

I will quite often find out the responses have little to do with what the message was about, because they've assumed they already know the text's contents. Today, I asked for Text Grace when getting a reply back from someone who gave an answer that was only somewhat related to my original text. I often get very frustrated, but this time Christ gave me a calm feeling to replace the tension. I did have to pray for grace a couple of times, throughout the interaction, but it did make a major difference which allowed me to be more gracious when I finally talked with that person by phone.