Words

I have words to say – words to say to you – to comfort, encourage, build up.

Words are powerful. They are power tools!

They not only can comfort and encourage, exhort and admonish, but they also can be used for ill – to criticize, control, harm and hurt.

Listen to the words you say.

Listen to the words others say to you.

We cannot control what others say, but we can control how we let them affect us. Yes, there have been many people in my life and yours who have said hurtful, hateful things. But the good news is we don’t have to become or remain a victim to their words. We have been given a choice.

Just as they chose to say what they felt, we have the choice to ignore, brush off, refuse what they tried to impart on us with their words.

We are not at their mercy!

We can be stronger! We have a free will, just as they do, and we can choose not to accept what they say over or to us.

Watch. Words.