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Good morning.

Most of my days begin in much the same way.  After the usual morning ablutions, and the important sustenance of coffee and breakfast….my day begins with the joy of emails.  It never ceases to amaze me how many emails modern life generates, and I play a twisted game with myself each day to guess how many might be in my inbox!

Thankfully I don’t receive too many messages that are all in CAPITAL LETTERS – you know the emails that look and read as if they are shouting at you from the screen. 

It’s not a trend I’ve fallen into myself, but some people choose to communicate only in CAPITALS and the resulting communication can seem quite fierce – whether it’s email or text messages – the effect can feel the same.

It annoyed Derek Arnold of Iowa so much in the year 2000, that he thought we should mark it, and we’ve ended up with two annual Cap Lock Days, one of which is today – an invitation to remember the delicateness and delights of how we communicate electronically with one another, and that doing it all with CAPITAL LETTERS is not perhaps the best way to go about things.

It’s always good to stop and think about how we communicate with one another.  The different modes and means we use, and the words we choose.  In today’s world of expansive social media, it becomes even more important to recognise the impact our words can have on another person, even at a distance.

The words that most of us want to hear, and which in the end can lead to better things, are the kind, encouraging communications that life can afford.

God….may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing and acceptable to you, this day and always.  Amen