The new life that emerges each day in a plant is a sign of growth in a plant. Every bud which becomes a flower is the gift that a plant offers.
Each plant brings out its best by flowering!
Jesus of Nazareth in one of His discourses said: '..the tree is known by its fruit.... For the mouth speaks out that which fills the heart.....The good man out of his good treasure brings forth what is good...' (Matt 12:33-35).
I stayed with this thought yesterday!
The reference to a treasure within became a subject of my attention.
What I offer through what I speak or relate is a disclosure of what is within!
It gave an opportunity to become familiar with the thought world that exists within! Another statement of Jesus of Nazareth clarified this further. 'Not what enters the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man' (Matt.15:11).
The spoken language proceeds from the interior thought world. It dawned on me that there is a language which proceeds from inner awareness and regulation. What is spoken is an expression of what one listens within. This happens by the habit of learning to resonate in spoken words, what one hears within !
What we speak is an expression of the treasure within!
Our words can either upbuild or make no appeal or can hurt the listener!
A conversation is therefore sharing the treasures of hearts between people!
The habit of 'quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to become angry (James 1:19-20) is another habit that makes conversations edifying!
I experienced such a language of interest and involvement when I visited a shop yesterday. I felt that I mattered to the salesman because he was attentive to hear me.
How much it is within me to make a conversation pleasing and uplifting!
Every conversation is an exchange of 'treasures within' between two people!
A plant flowers or gives fruits; a conversation is like flowering or fruit bearing!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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