Friday, April 4, 2008

The Power of Words

When you plant a seed into the ground. You can always expect that whatever you plant will take root and grow.

If you plant a tomato seed... you will not reap lettuce.

The same is true for the words we speak. Whatever we plant into the hearts of those around us, will be the very thing we can expect in return.

"You never listen! Why are you such a bad boy?" the mother yells and storms away.
Tears fill the six year old's eyes,"I am a bad boy," he says to himself allowing a frown to steal his smile away.

What ever predictions we make will most likely come true.

"You care about only yourself and you'll never be happy with me because you're selfish," the husband screams in the middle of yet another fight.
"I'll show you selfish," the wife fires back and storms out of her house to head for the bed of another man.

If you believe something about yourself and your circumstances, how can you, or your situation, ever be different than what you have decided them to be?

"I'll never get out of debt. Why do bad things always happen to me? My life sucks!" the young man cries and walks outside to find an eviction notice on his front door. "Figures!"

If you fill your cup with poison, how will you ever grow strong and get well?

"I'm never going to get healthy. I'm going be sick forever. What's the point of life if I'm always in pain?" the elderly woman declares.
Her nurse smiles sweetly and tilts her head, "Let's take a walk outside, it will do you some good."
"There's nothing that can help me," she yells pointing her nurse to the door.

Words are indeed like seeds planted in the ground. Our heart is the ground, the good, or bad, earth that when all words planted there, grow.

Whatever you nourish in your heart, whether it be the Weeds of Insecurity, Hate, Envy, Fear, Self loathing or the Flowers of Joy, Peace, Encouragement, or even the Trees of Love, Hope, Forgiveness and Compassion... these will be the plants that grow inside you and spring up around you.

We've been tricked into believing that by telling others of our hardship, we will be loved and cared for more. We've been blinded to believe, that if we curse others, it will make us feel better about ourselves.

The truth is, however, those who care for and encourage others are the ones that are loved and respected the most. Those who uplift and forgive, are the ones that truly feel better about themselves.

As a healthy tree produces good fruit, so an unhealthy and diseased tree produces that which makes others sick. Out of the heart can proceed every hate filled, arrogant, fearful, prideful, and terrible word. The cure is to have each and every one of these seeds/words/thoughts cast into the fire of love, so it can be destroyed and you can be set free. If we eat from the Tree of Life we will live but if we eat the words of death we will surely die.

Our words have power. Our words are like a sword that can kill or protect. Our words can be an elixir to the sick, or a poison to the healthy.

Our words can inspire change in the world, or hurl it into the pits of despair.

If you want peace, if you want success, if you want joy and love and to be content with all things in every situation, change!

Change your thoughts and your words to reflect your wants. Change your worry to hope. Change your fear to faith. Change your doubt to absolute certainty, and all will be well.

Change your words and change your life. Change your thoughts and change the world.

Jacob
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