So many words. We hear them…we speak them. Sometimes we
measure them. Sometimes we mull them over in our minds for hours before we
speak any. Words can: hurt, heal, describe, sooth, cut, hit, fall flat, soar…
"...& my mind is like a wet stone now, sharpening things to throw..." from the song Can't You Feel the Chains? by Chagall Guevara from their self titled debut.
Sometimes the words that hurt us the most…are not spoken with any mouth. Not
heard with ears…for they are spoken inside our very own minds. Sometimes those
sentences are the most horrible, abusive sentences on Earth. Sometimes we are
our own worst enemy. No one can be more cruel, sometimes, than we can be to
ourselves. After all, when someone else beats us up… they leave. As someone on
youtube once put it: “where do you go to get away from yourself?” Ouch.
Each of us wonders if we are the only one who hears these
words. We are not. We need to fight against these sentences. Sometimes we need
to hear better sentences. I wanted to post on this months ago. I just didn’t
find the right words [ironic, huh?]. I hope that this doesn’t come off as a “quick
fix”. Or a gloss over of this topic. I just wanted to speak on this. I know too
many people who hear bad sentences inside themselves. I’ve known people like
this for years. You really would not believe the people who hear such terrible
thoughts in their head. The pretty girls… who think they are the ugliest thing
in the world. The talented artists, gifted people, who think they don’t have a
gifted bone in their body. I hate seeing it in others… yet I have been known to
let it slide with myself. Anyway, I wanted to speak…well, post against those
voices. This is my attempt at such. It’s part of the reason I’ve “followed”
twhloha on twitter. Because they are constantly tweeting against these
sentences.with ones that resonate with the following:
You are valuable.
You matter.
Your story is important.
You are the only you
we’ll
ever get.
You are an original…
May His grace drip from your fingers,
B
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