Sorry my own posts have been rather infrequent lately. I am working on a book and I get wrapped up in at times. But I am managing to find some excellent little stories to post. And so here is today’s words of wisdom, told via story…
The Wise Sage
There once was a wise sage who wandered the countryside. One day, as he passed near a village, he was approached by a woman who told him of a sick child nearby. She beseeched him to help this child.
So the sage came to the village, and a crowd gathered around him, for such a man was a rare sight. One woman brought the sick child to him, and he said a prayer over her.
“Do you really think your prayer will help her, when medicine has failed?” yelled a man from the crowd.
“You know nothing of such things! You are a stupid fool!” said the sage to the man.
The man became very angry with these words and his face grew hot and red. He was about to say something, or perhaps strike out, when the sage walked over to him and said: “If one word has such power as to make you so angry and hot, may not another have the power to heal?”
And thus, the sage healed two people that day.
~Author Unknown
“Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are – to heal, to bring into being, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
I don’t know if there is much I can, or should add to that. It is so true, we find it easy to see how our words can hurt and lock us into a negative reality, but we forget that those same words have the power to elevate our reality. A great little story and a great lesson.
~Cory Mitchell
