(in)courage

What encourages me?

Words. Words encourage me. HIS Word. Words sung. Words spoken. Words whispered. Words strung together in stories and books. Words broken up in the mouths of young babes. Words written, on paper or on your heart. Words hold a promise, a promise that met paper thousands of years ago, and holds true now and to eternity. Sweet promises of hope, of grace, of mercy and love.... heavenly promises. Words can rip and tear the flesh- sometimes it is our very fleshly nature that needs torn, needs exposed and cleaned. Words can build up, edify, and lift you right up to the clouds. Words can also destroy, and discourage... Words are all we have. Words of love. Words of want. Words of need. Words of promise. Words of faith. Words of mercy. Words of hope. Words of wisdom. Words of consequence. Words as sharp as swords. Words as sweet as sugar. Words wet with tears. Words dripping with pain. Words dry and broken from desert places.

Words are songs, even if only to the person singing them. Words are poetry even if only to the poet that wrote them. I used to use words to try heal heart wounds, my hurts. To try to understand more what I could not process in my heart or mind... so I would sit down and put my pen to paper and the words would flow... like my heart bleeding on the page... and sometimes it would spill onto the floor. The words would poor out of me and the mix with the tears that washed them clean, washed me clean. No one can take your words from you- once spoken, once written it just IS. Can never go back to not being- can never go back to never being spoken... once it leaves your lips, once is becomes ink on paper to form your feelings... it is there, good or bad to be recorded and reconned with.

Whispered words. Loud words. Slow words. Prophetic words. Words of blessing. Words of praise. Words of salvation. Words of encouragement. Words of validation. Words of sympathy. Words of truth. Words of light. Words of kidness. Words of compassion. Words that keep on giving. Words of redemption. Words of healing. Words of anointing. Words of justice. Words of soverienty. Words of teaching. Words of yours. Words of mine. Words of ours. They can build up, and encourage, they can show love, and mercy, bring hope and healing. Or they can tear down, they can decieve, discourage, they can kill and destroy. They are power. There is power in the word- especially the spoken word. Use them wisely... it may be all you have.


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Blessings,
TeReSa