Powerful Words To Live By

In her book entitled "Magic", Rhonda Byrne opined that one word can turn your life around -- gratitude. Being thankful and counting your blessings would certainly change your feelings and the way you look at things.

But, the real power is not head knowledge but the application of knowledge which leads to experiences being gained, translating into heart knowledge. You gotta make "thankfulness", "gratefulness" and saying "thank you" second nature.

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." -- William Arthur Ward

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." -- Henry Ward Beecher

Speaking on the vocabulary of success in his book "Notes From A Friend", Anthony Robbins illustrated that the choice of words can change the way we feel and react.

For example, "peeved" would be much more less intense than "furious", "angry" or "pissed off". 

You can control your words and therefore your feelings; keep your cool and feel good all the same. Hey, nobody going to thumb you down or ruffle your feathers, unless you let loose words that are detrimental to your good self.

Then, there is "love", which I would say is the greatest of all. Yes, you may have heard it at weddings or in church, but it still rings true. 

Here then is 1 Corinthians 13 from the New Testament of the Holy Bible (NKJV version) for your rumination:_-

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

Remember, words make us strong not in themselves, but only when we live by them and make them part and parcel of our way of life. Stay fresh and be refreshed.