I don't believe that people comprehend the power that is within their words. Whether your words are spoken or written, they hold tremendous power, and if not used wisely, they can cause great harm to the people or environment that hear/receive them. I know you may think I'm crazy for believing this, but I do, and being a man that believes my word is all I have this is true for me. Be careful of the words you speak.
I entitled this post "Broken Promises" because that is exactly what I feel like I have faced in my journey to find love. I have found that in intimate relationships we constantly feed each other broken promises; they come out of our mouths like flowing rivers, but they are as barren as the desert they come from. That desert is our heart, our hearts that have endured all the broken promises from ex-lovers, and that same heart that now produces broken promises.
Living by the biblical principle of letting your yes be yes and your no be no isn't always easy to do. It also however isn't difficult as we try to make it. I've learned to accomplish this principle by no longer being a people please(er). I have learned that it is better to say no, than to say yes, and then being unable to fulfill whatever you said yes to. Can you do the same?
During this time I have been sitting here replaying all the broken promises I have had to endure: "I love you", "I will always be there for you", "no matter what we will always be friends", "I want to be with you no matter what", "You mean so much to me," and the list goes on and on. I know you read some of these and said, wait where is the promise, but just these statements alone hold so much in them; I don't think the people didn't realize they were making powerful promises. I sit here waiting for the promises that will never come.
Don't make promises you can't keep. And remember life and death is in the power of the tongue.
