Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Proverbs 16:24 (NIV)
Part 2 – Words Filled with Grace
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Words dull things down because our brains can only vaguely comprehend this thing called life. I’ve heard neuroscientists refer to our brains as a ‘limiting-valve’ that narrow down the immensity of human experience. Otherwise, we’d all quite possibly lose our minds because of the overload.
It kinda sounds like trying to squeeze God into our understanding would cause our brains to explode! Ha!
We can barely wrap our language around our own existence. Nor can we around the creator of it all. My conclusion is that language and the human experience requires grace, because nobody is ever going to completely and truly be able to express the wholeness of it.
I think this is why poetry and story have such a dear place in most cultures. They tap into and make room for the inexpressible and indescribable.
The mystery.
It also highlights our need to use our words with care. Especially when aiming them at others. Words, because of their inability to contrast things with high detail, tend to paint broad brush strokes over a person or situation. The result is judgement which can then destroy with the brute force of a wrecking ball at high speed. It neglects to paint the nuance of a situation and can destroy with a single blow, when what is necessary is the fine-tuned precision of a surgeon’s knife.
And once again we come back to the need for grace, which can also be the gap-filler for the minuscule details we can’t see, express or understand.
Proverbs 16:24 (NIV) says,
“Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.”
Our words, when filled with grace, become the link between a hopeless situation and hope personified. They lift up when everything else appears to tear down. When all we’ve experienced is being cut and burned, their invocation can heal and soothe.
The motivating force behind grace is always love. The inexpressible. The only definable nature of the Eternal One. Yet the complexity and deepness of love always seems to remain just out of arms reach.
(You can also now understand why in Hebrew culture, God’s name, YHWH, was unpronounceable, for the very pronunciation of it limited him down to the finite)
If life and death are in the power of the tongue, then intention and attention are absolutely necessary for words to have a life-giving effect.
Realise that what rolls off your lips has a narrow bandwidth in which to communicate the depth and breadth of this life… which implies that every person on this planet faces the same handicap.
Love and grace are the keys to communicating (and receiving communication) with the utmost highest value.
And our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to love relentlessly… not just through our words but with actions that reinforce them.
Today, may what you express bring fresh life, grace and a deeper love.
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