“It is my first anniversary!” That is what I told myself this morning (21 Sept) when I opened this site to check on the number of hits it has made so far. It has been a year of blogging for me this month without my noticing it.
I started this site at the suggestion of my children when I complained of not having enough things to keep me busy while I was beginning to recover from my open-heart surgery around this time last year. I hemmed and hawed at first, then decided to write the story about my heart by-pass surgery and that started it all.
As at end of last month, I have written some 39 posts on this blogsite. That is an average of three posts a month. And with an average of 500 words per post, I thought that that is a lot of words I have spawned for a year.
This got me reflecting on “words, words, words”, recalling the lines from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It has been ages since I read Shakespeare in college and I do not remember now, but I think he followed that line about words with “all sound and fury, signifying nothing”. I started to wonder whether words are truly “all sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
I do not agree. And the old playground limerick that goes: “Sticks and stones may hurt my bones, but your words cannot hurt me”, is not true either.
The power of words
It is true that words, even when spoken innocently, can oftentimes hurt feelings, provoke anger, and even start a war – in a household or even globally. How many times have we regretted what we had said in jest or even with the best of intentions?
But words can inspire a loved one like an “I love you” or “You are beautiful”; while a “Good job!” or even a simple “Good Morning” can make a lot of difference in the day of the security guard at the office.
We know too that words can instill hope and even faith in others as in “God loves you” and “God bless” to an acquaintance or to a stranger who has irritated us.
Words also become initiators of healing and peace among sworn enemies as in “I am sorry” and “I forgive you”.
Words unite minds and hearts forever as the words “I do” by husband and wife in marriage. I remember them as the two most important words that I have ever said in my life some thirty years ago that also changed the course of my life forever!
And words can be the sweetest sound you will ever hear when they come forth from your child or grandchild for the very first time. I was happy beyond words the first time I heard the word “Papa” from my eldest child Pizza some 29 years ago. And the first time I heard Nicole call me “Wowo” was just pure joy.
God’s Word
Lastly, and most beautiful of all, words can create as when God spoke in the first days of creation: “Let there be light…” God’s word also saves as when “The Word became flesh” to live among us and be one of us.
I started this site at the suggestion of my children when I complained of not having enough things to keep me busy while I was beginning to recover from my open-heart surgery around this time last year. I hemmed and hawed at first, then decided to write the story about my heart by-pass surgery and that started it all.
As at end of last month, I have written some 39 posts on this blogsite. That is an average of three posts a month. And with an average of 500 words per post, I thought that that is a lot of words I have spawned for a year.
This got me reflecting on “words, words, words”, recalling the lines from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It has been ages since I read Shakespeare in college and I do not remember now, but I think he followed that line about words with “all sound and fury, signifying nothing”. I started to wonder whether words are truly “all sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
I do not agree. And the old playground limerick that goes: “Sticks and stones may hurt my bones, but your words cannot hurt me”, is not true either.
The power of words
It is true that words, even when spoken innocently, can oftentimes hurt feelings, provoke anger, and even start a war – in a household or even globally. How many times have we regretted what we had said in jest or even with the best of intentions?
But words can inspire a loved one like an “I love you” or “You are beautiful”; while a “Good job!” or even a simple “Good Morning” can make a lot of difference in the day of the security guard at the office.
We know too that words can instill hope and even faith in others as in “God loves you” and “God bless” to an acquaintance or to a stranger who has irritated us.
Words also become initiators of healing and peace among sworn enemies as in “I am sorry” and “I forgive you”.
Words unite minds and hearts forever as the words “I do” by husband and wife in marriage. I remember them as the two most important words that I have ever said in my life some thirty years ago that also changed the course of my life forever!
And words can be the sweetest sound you will ever hear when they come forth from your child or grandchild for the very first time. I was happy beyond words the first time I heard the word “Papa” from my eldest child Pizza some 29 years ago. And the first time I heard Nicole call me “Wowo” was just pure joy.
God’s Word
Lastly, and most beautiful of all, words can create as when God spoke in the first days of creation: “Let there be light…” God’s word also saves as when “The Word became flesh” to live among us and be one of us.
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