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I’m a word person. Not particularly earth shattering information I know. But what I want you to understand is that I’m a very serious word person. It’s probably why I’m always asking the person I’m talking with to define their words.
We all use words assuming the other person will know and understand what we’re saying (even if we don’t). The reality is that how one person uses a word may not be at all how another one will. How many times have you witnessed a conversation and realized that the two people involved were saying the same thing but using different words?! The opposite is also true – they may seem to be saying the same thing but it’s obvious that they are meaning two entirely different things.
Words are incredibly important, especially if you want to communicate with someone. They are meant to convey a thought, a feeling, a passion to another. They are NOT to be taken lightly and I suspect that they are all too easily tossed around. Words can uplift. They can cause immense pain. Words can provide the means to new discoveries. They can hold a person in bondage because of an assumed definition.
When it comes to words…. never assume, find out what is being communicated. In a very real way you are holding the other person as well as yourself to an accountability of what is being said – no excuse (I thought you meant…) or misunderstanding of the message.
