They can lift you up or tear you down.  They can comfort you or make you feel abandoned. Even when you aren’t asking for words, they are there.  But when a mother’s heart speaks words of love and life oh those words change the world.

Whether you are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or godparent your words will shape the little minds that are growing up in and around you and your home.  You have the power to make a child dream or stop dreaming with your words.  You have the power to give confidence and build up a child to think they can do the impossible and get it done.  Think for a moment, most of us can name an experience we had growing up where someone spoke words that hurt you so deeply and you carry them still til’ this day.  Words that til this day bring fear or anger.  We also have the memories of the people that spoke words of life and inspiration to us.  Words that made us dream with the impossible and see ourselves in a whole new way.

If the words spoken to us in our childhood we still carry today then that means the words I speak over the children around me {and even adults around me} they can and will carry with them for years to come.  I don’t know about you but when I think about how powerful my words can be it makes me rethink what I will say, and what I want them to remember and never forget.

Yesterday morning I called my  mom while on my way to work, to have her pray with me before going live with the blog.   I was very nervous and I just wanted her blessing and prayer.  Well her words summed up the reason for my post.  “Nena {meaning me} you have been blessed since you wrote your first article in Kindergarten.  Do you remember? Where you told everyone what you favorite things were.  Where you wrote that meat {meaning fried pork chops aka Chuletas} was your favorite food.  I remember, a mother always remembers.  Your writing has been blessed since then”.  As I sat in my car driving I thought wow, she took me back to kindergarten I had flashbacks of me explaining what I meant with “meat” being my favorite food and I smiled.  With tears in my eyes I realized how her words had the power to ease my nerves and steady my heart and at the same time give me the confidence to know someone has been watching me write for years and she said I was going to do well.  Her words were enough to change how I felt and what I thought.

Mom’s words do indeed  have power, and so do yours.  Use them wisely.

Merita’s Heart

Proverbs 12:18 There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,  but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Ps. If you have been weighed down and held back by words that you have been carrying take a moment to say this prayer with me.  Lord God almighty, I come before you with a heavy heart, weighed down by years of carrying words that hurt and destroy me.  Words that come up at the worst moments to steal my joy, peace, confidence and even ability to believe in myself.  Heal me and erase those words from my heart and memory.  Heal me and remind me at all times that my words have power.  Power to kill or to give life, power to destroy or to build up so that I can speak words of life over myself and others. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.