I’m not quite sure we understand the power of our words. One negative, hurtful word, said out of hand or without thought is like a seed that is stuck deep into a persons soul. You might think that what I’m saying is extreme, but think with me a minute. Think back to the earliest memory you have of someone saying something hurtful, and tell me how it STILL feels. OUR WORDS ARE POWERFUL.

We get mad or we’re annoyed and we strike out. An off handed comment, a verbal jab, done without thinking. Except that word sinks in. It begins to grow. It feeds on self esteem and the only fruit is bears is insecurity.

As the word grows larger, it grows stronger, and so does the insecurity. Over time the persons spirit get weak, brittle, then broken.

Most of the time the only think left is BITTERNESS.

Now a person who was once full of joy, is nothing. Destroyed by a stray thought, a word spoken out of a flash of emotion.

A PERSON IS DESTROYED BECAUSE WE DON’T UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF OUR WORDS.

But all is not lost. If this is what we can do with a thoughtless word spoken, imagine what we could do if we learn to speak words that BUILD. Those kind of words bring LIFE.

I hate CHANGE… I mean, I REALLY HATE CHANGE.
I am one of those people that order the same thing every time I go to the restaurant. One place I go on a regular basis, the owner actually pays for my meal as long as I let him decide what I am going to eat. He just wants me to try something new every now and then.

There’s nothing wrong with not liking change… there is however something unhealthy about RUNNING FROM CHANGE.

“CHANGE is the only constant in maturity”

If you always fight change you will never grow. If you want to mature, if you want to grow, you have to be willing to CHANGE.

One thing I know for certain is that I don’t know everything. (My wife could confirm this if you like) Because I don’t know everything, I tend to ask a lot of questions, “Why would you say that?”, “Why would you do this?”, “Why do you believe that?”.
The one answer that makes me cringe every time I hear it is, “because we’ve always done it like that” or “because it’s always been that way”.

Right now there are people who are reading this that need to make some changes. Some serious, some not so serious. (yet)

There are business men and women whose companies would grow if they would make changes in their staff, “They’ve been here forever”…It doesn’t matter… CHANGE. There are husbands who are watching their marriages slip away because they don’t want to grow up, “She knew I was this way when she married me”… So what… CHANGE! There are some teens that are reading this and you know that if you don’t change some of the things you are doing, it is going to wreck you… Don’t wait… CHANGE! There are parents who are about to lose your relationships with your kids because you can’t admit you might be wrong… CHANGE!

Don’t let pride or comfort get in the way of your growth. We were created to go to the next level… The next level in our RELATIONSHIPS, in our WORK, in our SCHOOL, and in our FAMILIES.

DON’T BE AFRAID OF CHANGE!

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This blog is based on the premise that LOVE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. Real love. Unselfish love. The kind of love that would cause you to risk it all for someone else. The idea that WITHOUT LOVE WE ARE NOTHING. That we were not meant to live only for ourselves. We were created to love others. We were also created to be loved. And without receiving that kind of undeserved love, we would be incomplete.

Have you ever experienced that kind of LOVE? Have you ever loved someone without ever intending on receiving anything in return? Have you ever received LOVE you didn’t think you deserved?

I want to hear your thoughts on LOVE. What is love to you? How have you experienced LOVE? Do you even think that kind of LOVE even exists? Is LOVE just a myth? Something people only dream about, sing about, read about but never experience?

Please, take a moment and write what you think love is. Tell a story of when you have LOVED or been LOVED in such a way that you have never been the same since.

Would you ask your friends to do the same? Maybe reblog asking you followers to consider the same question?

If you want you can leave your response in the comment section of this post or email your thoughts to withoutloveblog {at} gmail {dot} com, or you could just answer the question on your own blog and let me know so that I can reblog it.

I will post all of your thoughts, however please try to keep your posts as “clean” as you can without feeling like you are losing the impact of what you are saying.