WORDS.
Words are so important, we use them to speak and articulate sentences.
What else do we use them for?
Some sentences can mean absolutely nothing while others can mean absolutely everything. The kind of words that inhabit the penetrable works of full emotion; emotion that draws us to do something about them. Words that have impact, the kind of impact that take us on a ride full of ambition and thrill; or possibly the words that fill us with the kind of somber sadness that allow us to feel such a heaviness that feel as though it might never lift.
I believe our society forgets the impact words can make so we tend to use them flamboyantly and without great purpose, at times; and others we choose not to use them when they're needed the most. Do we as a generation even know what the word “love” actually means? Do we even care to find out, to really research the intricate and delicate meaning and propensity the word seems to generate? I do feel certain we know what the word hate entails and how it drives us as a people, but do we know entirely what “love” means?
Words have the ability to shape and mold us as young children, they have the ability to give and take as well as crush or relieve. They can hold an enormous amount of depth as well as little to nothing. Where do our words really encapsulate meaning?
Where do you feel your words count less, and where might they count more? Should we even be analyzing where our words hold more meaning or do they hold almost nothing at all? Do they hold so much meaning that it’s not where they don’t count, but it’s where they do and its how we use them? Do we use them to fulfill our own egos and happiness...or do we use them to build and strengthen one another?
Words are the universal way in which communication is made, and made necessary. As a people we tend to take everything we’re given for granted, we forget how much we really have and look at all we don’t but wish we did.
Do we take words for granted?
Do we literally take the ability to communicate with one another so lightly that we then in turn allow our hearts to hate, to allow our sin driven nature to dig so deeply with harsh and cruel words.
Why?
Where do they count?
God gave us the ability to communicate with one another so that we would grow and develop friendship and relationships; he even gave us marriage. I would argue that our generation doesn’t quite understand how words quite literally have an impact. Maybe we tend to understand where they have a negative impact, but what about a positive? How they can mean something so beautifully extravagant one moment but maybe despicably mournful the next?
Do we care?
Within our words lie decision and willfulness; our words can have the aptitude of conveying, destructing, reinforcing, loving, articulating, giving, replacing, sharing, hurting, grieving, and so much more because we humans are complex individuals.
Where are they powerful?
& why?
Our words can legitimately have the abilty to consent to marriage, agree to adoption, tolerate abuse, sanction a sentence, approve ones career path, tear apart a family, convey lasting love, permit rights, certify endorsements, avenge war, verify identify, confirm ability, provide life altering news, or maybe possibly even change ones whole world.
1) How can we make the best use of our words?
2) Do they build up or tear down?
3) Where are they most productive?
4) Do we fully understand the impact our words may have?
5) & lastly...do we care, why or why not?
...What if we spoke words of love, intentional love.
I wonder how different we might all feel about them then, I wonder how different we might all operate.
Words.
(Just a thought)
