Word Shift

Sometimes I see too much. Especially in the words I observe, in the world I live, and in the voices I listen. But when you’ve trained yourself in the awareness of grace, and you’ve begged God continually to altar your perspective in a world gone mad with negativity, and hostility, and what appears to be an aversion to joy and gladness as Peter’s assignment to us speaks of, you disallow yourself any other way of living.

It was a simple post really. No one I knew. Just a scroll through social media. And the words written beside a wintery image, a fresh blanket of snow, were, “Beautiful, but cold.”

And I get it. It’s truth. It’s cold. And reporting facts and data is uncomplicated. And maybe even effortless. Ahh... words become less effort and more incidental... unintentioned... casual. And I wonder if there in lies the problem.

Because everything we say matters. Everything. And if we aren’t careful.. if we remain accidental with our words and not intentional... we risk misrepresenting the One we claim to serve best and love most.

And so we can choose differently the words that escape our mouths and fingertips. We can redesign our proclamation by redirecting our perspective. It’s all a matter of what we choose to see. What we see will be what we sow. Because we manifest most what we think on most.

And so with slight word shift we change everything, “It’s cold, but it’s beautiful.”

It really changes the entire meaning of that same idea. Both true. But rise given to the loveliest condition.

The thing you choose to give influence to will be that which has the most impact on you. And so we really must think about what we’re thinking about and then pray for better choices that represent a better perspective.

It all matters.