Words...What do they mean?

There is a saying - "If you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done.  If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll always have what you've always had."

This is a very powerful idea, and if utilized, can alter your world.  It's amazing how by doing something or not doing something you've always done can impact and change a day, a week, or even your life!

I'm learning where to tweek my life with this idea.  Everyday poses new opportunity to change how I've always done things.  It's fun and very interesting to find alternate ways.  I have found an alternate reality to how my life has always gone.  It's so interesting, I have to share it.

This morning, before I left to volunteer at our local food pantry, I noticed there were hardly any coffee cups, no spoons to use, and dishes hadn't gotten done the night before.  I used to get steamed and leave.  This morning, I did up a couple sink-fulls of dishes before I left.  I can't wait to see the ripple effect of doing this one, little thing. 

I've learned to respond to insults and harsh talk with different tones and chosen words.  I don't want to hurt someone who hurts me, and I want the words coming out of my mouth to be building and out of love.  I wish others would be so sensitive to the words and tones they choose to say.  It's hard to handle when someone else had someone do something wrong to them, but the tone and words coming out of their mouth on me are as if I did it.  That's when I say, "Hey, why are you talking to me like this?  What's wrong?"  Then, the best way to handle it is to tell them how their talking is affecting me and making me feel.

Our communication is what makes our relationships work or not.  I was reading in the Bible today, and I got a good dose of a lesson from one scripture that said, "The voice of a fool is known by his many words."  This is a great lesson to stop and think about the words we say and how they affect the ones we said them to.  Even words spoken about someone need to be handled with care. 

Why not, before we even let the thought escape our heads, put the idea under.  If you find yourself even thinking negatively about someone else, ask yourself, how would you feel if the thoughts you're thinking were thought about you, or how would those thoughts feel told to you about you?  Let our words, thoughts and actions be of love and care, to help build up and grow instead of tearing down, killing and putting under.