OUR WORDS

With our words, we have the ability to mend or to destroy. Our words can inspire and encourage others or ridicule and degrade them. Our words can teach, comfort and reassure, or they can mislead, punish and victimize.

Words are powerful because they don't simply dissipate once they've been spoken. Often, what we say to others and what others say to us leaves a lasting effect. Kind or hurtful, words usually have a way of lingering in our memories and our hearts for a very long time.