Words Create Worlds (Monday Moments ep. 323)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
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🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The words we speak, and those we hear, influence and directly shape the world in which we live. Words are powerful and last week in our nation’s capital we witnessed a clear example of this truth. Five people were killed, dozens injured and one of the most sacred spaces in our country was desecrated.
Rather than debate the cause of this tragedy, let’s take pause and heed wisdom from a political voice from our past.
Delivered more than five decades ago, Presidental candidate Robert Kennedy speaks to the profound divisions we were and are experiencing as a nation as well as the hope of how we still can heal together.
Today, we must extinguish the smug, self-righteous tone many pundits exude – and then we echo – about those with different beliefs than ours. We must acknowledge that the rhetoric has magnified divisiveness, increased hatred and does nothing to benefit any of us.
How do we even begin to do this? Well, this week, I encourage you to:
- Turn off the news.
- Take a break from social media.
- Be highly aware of the voice you are listening to and the words you are speaking.
The change we actually need will never be delivered by a politician. It’s not that easy and never was. It requires a softening of our biases, a changing of hearts and a desire to be love in a marketplace still starving for it.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary Monday morning motivation style. |
| 0:16.8 | And I'm pretty convinced in particular after watching the events of last week, my gosh, that we need a little inspiration. |
| 0:24.3 | We need a little motivation. |
| 0:25.4 | We need a little truth and we need a little hope in our lives. |
| 0:28.3 | And it's my hope as you listen through this podcast and really all of our podcast, that it inspires you, that it equips you to recognize it is not easy. |
| 0:36.9 | It is not easy. Life is not easy. |
| 0:39.1 | But the foundation remains firm. Life remains good and I believe the best of our journey remains in front of us. |
| 0:46.0 | One of my dear friends, his name is Don Eggelson, likes to say that words create worlds. |
| 0:52.4 | Language matters. Words create worlds. In other words, these types of sentences |
| 0:59.1 | change our life. Listen to them. Maybe you've heard a few of these. Listen. Will you marry me? |
| 1:06.3 | I do. You're pregnant. |
| 1:13.1 | It's a boy. |
| 1:16.1 | You're hired. |
| 1:18.8 | You're fired. |
| 1:22.5 | It's cancer. |
| 1:25.2 | He's gone. |
| 1:26.2 | He's gone. My friends, the words we speak and those we hear directly influence the world in which we live. |
| 1:34.3 | Words are powerful and last week in our nation's capital we witnessed yet another reminder. |
| 1:40.3 | Five people were killed. Dozens were injured and one of the most sacred spaces in our country was desecrated. |
| 1:47.5 | Rather than debating the cause of this tragedy, let's instead heed the wisdom from a political voice from our past. |
| 1:56.1 | On the evening of the tragic assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., riots broke out in nearly every |
| 2:03.5 | single major United States city, fueled by anger at the murder of the voice for the civil |
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