I've been up reading blogs this morning. The theme seems to be words: words that hurt, words of advice, words to live by. Why do let words control our lives? We worry about what to say, when to say it, where to say it, how will they respond?
Why do words have so much power? Why do words seem stronger than actions so many times? A child of mine will call me totally stressed over a "wrong done to her" we spend a lot of time talking about it, it takes about 30 min of talk to undo 30 seconds of a bad action or a bad word.
When I do collages I often will put in one word of inspiration to enhance the art work.
Maybe we should work on talking less, listening more and thinking positively about ourselves and others more.
I think this is especially true of young adults and preteens, they should not be allowed to talk until they are 45.