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"If you desire my services, then let me have freedom to express the spirit which I represent."
— Franz Liszt

Whose Language Are You Using Anyway?

The other night I went with my husband and several friends to see Conversations with God, based on the book of the same name by Neale Donald Walsh. It was interesting to notice the parallels and see that he was saying the same things that I do in conversations. To recognize that it's all about fear or love and the feelings. Something that is, at the same time, so simple yet so profound.

Some of the other parallels were;

* The broken neck and the sensation that came up when he tried to remove the neck brace the night in the tent--I could feel the nausea, the pain as the weeks and months after my own posterior cervical laminectomy came flooding back to me.
* Seeing his reaction to the homeless on the street and the transformation that came about when he was so destitute that he found himself eating leftover food in a dumpster and to know what it felt like to be hungry and have only bread and water to eat for several days in a row.
* To see him as the aggressor in a relationship because he was so starved for love even though it was all around him but he just couldn't feel it.
* And last - but most important in this post - to hear him say that, "God speaks to us in our own language so we can hear" and having come to realize just recently that I must put my ideas, my formula for freedom, in words that others can understand but only as a function of "moral duty".
* It's this last item that I'd like to spend a few minutes on. As I heard that in the theater I knew one of my largest obstacles was my own language, my need to make it duty. If God sees fit to talk to me in my language out of love, what ego based fear is prompting me to come at this from a moral, self-righteous "duty" platform?

If I, or anyone reading this, have a message to deliver, how much more powerful is it when I put it in words that others can hear and understand? I see it everyday around me with people being in a button because someone is speaking in a language other than English. Why, because it feels like they think they're better than us? Maybe they are saying something "about us". Maybe they are even hatching some "evil" plot to overthrow the government. Isn't it ridiculous how far we'll let our imaginations go as a result of fear?

If we have a message to get across, to business partners, associates, clients, family, friends it's just possible that "putting it in terms so simple as to ensure that all within the hearing of our voices will feel the power of the words", is tantamount to ultimate success and moreover - just as Neal Walsh said, it is done from a place of love. From that magnificent place of power in each of us.

What voice will you choose to speak with today?

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