Every day, we decide how to use our voices.
Have you ever felt, though, like you aren’t sure what you want to say? Sometimes, it can feel like we don’t have anything to give that might matter to someone else… sometimes, it seems like anything worth saying has already been said, like the noisy world doesn’t need our words. Sometimes it feels safer to retreat into our routines and keep our stories to ourselves. Sometimes, it’s easier to stay quiet.
But through your actions, through your silence, through your words, through your art, through your work ~ you are going to tell your story to the world around you, one way or another. We are placed wherever we are, in this moment, for this time. So what you choose to say matters. Your voice DOES make a difference… and, YES, you have something worthwhile to offer.
Friends, we are hope-bearers.
We hold the wonder of God’s perfect love, the beauty of heart-changing mercy, the peace of our Savior’s presence.
We have words of grace, of healing, of compassion. We have Love that turns stories of sin, pain, and brokenness into stories of all-things-made-new salvation, mourning-into-dancing, ashes-into-beauty, death-into-life. (Isaiah 61)
Christ within us, the love of the Father, the gift of redemption ~ this is the story that is needed. It is the story that matters most.
And it is yours to tell. It is mine to tell. We are children of the light, the redeemed, the beloved… and it is time for our lives to say so. May we choose, every day, His words of life. May we choose, every day, to act in His love. May we choose, every day, to allow the story of our lives to tell His.
One generation shall praise Your works to another,
and shall declare Your mighty acts.
I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty,
and on Your wondrous works.
Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts,
and I will declare Your greatness.
They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness,
and shall sing of Your righteousness…
The Lord is gracious and full of compassion,
slow to anger and great in mercy.
The Lord is good to all,
and His tender mercies are over all His works.
All Your works shall praise You, O Lord,
and Your saints shall bless You.
They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom,
and talk of Your power,
to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts…
my mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord.
~ from Psalm 145