What’s in a Word

Do you ever feel like you’re being stalked? I get this feeling relatively often. And I’m so grateful for it.

Not the creepy “there is an actual stranger watching my every move” kind of stalking; more so when you hear/ see the same thing repeatedly in a short space of time. You overhear it in conversation, and then there’s a song playing in the shops with lyrics to the same effect. Someone texts you a quote & you read a blog post that’s basically a summary of what you’ve already been hearing… you get my point.

A little while ago I was stopped in my online clicking tracks when catching up on my bloglovin’ feed. See there was this thing lingering in my mind as the year turned, about something I used to do ALL the time. I don’t know why I stopped, and can’t pin point when, but can’t shake the feeling that I should get back into it. And then there it was all over the internet – telling me I wasn’t imagining it. No, I’m not talking about running (how January of me would that be). I’ve never been a super regular runner, but I was an encourager. A regular intentional speaker of true things that put courage – and hope and light – IN to the lives of others, with my words.

Three of my favourite writers shared on the power and potential of our words and I just happened to open each of them in the same sitting. If you believe that things like that just happen. I’d, um, encourage you to read them all. I will too, again and again.