Take care??

[teebee]

Hi, all. I have a question for you. My pastor has really been stressing to us the importance of thinking about and perhaps eliminating some common phrases that many of us say without thinking such as "You're killing me," "That tickled me to death", "____ makes me sick", etc. I commonly close conversations with "Take care" and now I catch myself all the time and will quickly retract it explaining to the friend why I'm retracting it. I think of the scripture that tells us to "cast all of our cares upon Christ because he cares for us". To tell someone to take care is to tell them to do the opposite of what that scripture says. Trust me. I'm not legalistic about this. I don't think I'm going to go to hell if I utter one of the above phrases. I'm simply attempting to be more conscious of my words.

The questions: Do any of you out there think about or care about such phrases? What is a good, quick substitute for "take care" when ending a conversation?

THANKS

[anointedteacher]

Care.... In the scripture it is use as a noun.... cares as burdens.... but telling a person to take care is use as a verb.... as tell a person to take care of him/herself as in eating right, exericise, pray, read the Bible, watchful etc...

Life and death is in the the tongue... I stopped using the phases you're killing, you make me sick, you're crazy, I am going to kill you, I am going to fix you, etc...

[krazeeboi]

I agree with AT in that "take care" is really shorthand for "take care of yourself." That's different from the scripture that tells us to "cast our cares" on the Lord, because Jesus ain't gonna make you eat the right foods, exercise, drive carefully, etc. He's given us the wisdom and common sense to do those basic things for ourselves.

[teebee]

Thanks Krazee and AT. I will look at it as you stated. Good food for thought.