Blankets Aren't Always Snuggly.

If there is one thing I’ve learned it’s that there is life or death in the power of your words. The very syllables that cross the threshold of your mouth can build another soul up to the highest of heights or send them down to the deepest depths. Words and phrases stick much more permanently then scrapes and bruises. They penetrate parts of the heart that were always meant to be protected but have been brutally exposed in the culture we live in today. I was thinking about different types of destructive types of speech, and far from the obvious damage of slander and gossip comes a less known but equally vicious mode of word transportation: blanket statements.

When you throw out those cement words [always or never] onto another person is does much more than just evoke guilt it sets of patterns of belief that that human heart is not bound to. When we take the reigns in our own hands and say “you always do this” or “you never do this” we create word space that is unproductive and hurtful and void of life sustaining grace that Jesus offers freely. I myself have been wrestling  with these blankets that other peoples words that have clung to me like leeches and also had to replay ugly words I’ve spoken onto others that I know still sting them. We are human, we are fragile, we take time to get to the point where we have had enough of the lies and NEED to search out truth that outshines the darkness…but unfortunately some people are so defeated they never try. These statement are on automatic replay in everybody’s minds and they are debilitating because we use them as the scapegoats to never try. We decide far before we ever dare to risk being rejected that we are inadequate because or the “always and nevers”. It breaks my heart to think of all the sheer potential and light that is being snuffed out because we open our mouths to wound instead of to heal. I don’t want to be a person that throws horrible little blankets statements on people that act as a prison to their potential. I want to be a person that diligently seeks opportunity to free and release them from stereotypes and old bad habit patterns. Why can’t we dare to live and love like this? To take the value of that person, someone that is a walking resemblance of their creator, and prioritize them ahead of our schedules, emotions, money, principles, pride and opinions. I’m not excusing the sins of others, please don’t get it wrong in that head of yours, what I am saying is that are we willing to love that person and what their capable of contributing to the kingdom of God more than we love being right? What good does it do to have billions of people who are “right” but have been mutilated with the arrows of hurtful words and retreated to dark isolation? I don’t want that kind of world, I want to live in a world that can humble itself before God and be wrong but LOVE so much more because its willing to do what’s best for his people, not itself. So put your blanket ammo down, I know I need to as well, and open your eyes, ears, minds and hearts to embrace God’s kids who are so scared and lost as it is without your judgment. We need to learn that devaluing people is the most devastating tragedy to strike our generation…when we change our purpose in gaining we will realize that when souls firmly planted in Jesus thrive we have everything we will ever want or need.

POEM: The Truth Remains.

You don’t know the way I see you tonight,

I wish you would accept it and not try to fight.

The way the light dances in the windows of your soul,

Or without loving people you simply wouldn’t be whole.

The smile that plays with the sense of a room,

And the way you touching me makes my heart boom.

Warming this cold world with words so full of life,

Your wisdom hold so much weight, it cuts lies like a knife.

Slow and easy you fill your lungs and still your mind,

Darling from where I sit your one of a kind.

You make it a point to make people truly know,

That without them humanity wouldn’t grow.

Because a vital piece of the Lords family tree,

Would be incomplete and just a heap of debree.

You give up so much to lift others up,

And willingly take an unfair cup,

Others have come and told you I’m wrong,

But really they were blind all along.

My love, give up the darkness that’s trying to take you away,

Believe what I say, I beg you to stay.

You my dear are something extraordinary to behold. Including those eyes and you heart of gold.

Mankind will never understand why I feel,

That if you not with me, nothing is real.

Go ahead; try to make your appeal,

It’s my heart you’ve already managed to steal.