Greetings, Prayer Team!
It was a wise decision for me to purchase unlimited long-distance phone minutes. I’m wordy, you see, and if the phone company billed me for each word-filled minute as an independent unit, my monthly bills would cost me dearly. But they knew about people like me, who have friends and mothers just as wordy, who wouldn’t like to count the cost of each word spoken or listened to, and they made a package deal I couldn’t refuse.
Sometimes, words exchanged flow into the sea without much to remember them by; other times, a few words strung together lodge at the edge of the stream and stay there a long time or forever, some of them large enough little by little to change the course of life’s river.
Words are around us all the time—we read them, listen to them, speak them, write them, think them, even teaching children to sound them out one vowel and consonant at a time. We hardly accomplish anything without them, for our words act.
Have you ever thought about how if God hadn’t spoken first, you would have had no words to say? Neither would you have existed. His words—His Word—brings something out of nothing. The ancestors of the flowers on my desk came out of nothing but God’s Word.
While our words aren’t nearly as powerful as all that, we are created in God’s image, and He meant that our words should act, shape, and inspire for good purposes. As our Streams of Light leaders gather for a meeting this Sunday and as our pastors gather for several meetings next week, we hope you’ll remember them in your prayers. How we need each word to bear good fruit over the course of the next week!
On behalf of Patsy Wagner,
Heidi C. Corder
Assistant, Office of Philanthropy
