In a dream I had recently I was teaching people a new language. It wasn’t any of the many languages I studied in school and still can’t speak: French, German, Spanish or Russian. The language I was teaching was the language of the heart, creativity and the Spirit!
If you were teaching a language what would it be? What is the language you we’re called to give a voice too? You can recognize your language, through the things that make you feel most in tune with life, most free and most fully alive. Within those things is your voice that brings definition to life through your own unique language.
I often joke, speaking of my highly creative family, that I don’t have the ability to raise accountants! It’s simply not my language. However, I am so grateful for accountants. One of my creative sons needs the wisdom of an accountant right now to manage the success he is experiencing. Accounting isn’t his language either, but we recognize our need for this magnificent ability to speak numbers that some posses.
When teaching children to speak for the first time they need to be exposed to the sounds, the feel and the expression of a given language. Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller to recognize the word “water” as she felt it trickle through her fingers. For Helen Keller the connection to language ushered in volumes of light into her darkened world, as with any child words instantly become a passageway to communicate vital information.
I am so gratefully that we have been given a stupendously skillful teacher in the Holy Spirit. If we are responsive to the Spirit’s expressive movement in our lives, breathing and illuminating the unique language we’ve been given to communicate to the earth, we will become fluent spokesmen.
When I go for long periods of time without expressing my heart’s language, I find the world around me dull and darkened. Yet when I freely release and express my voice a torch of illumination alights and guides others to their own heart and voice. Our languages show others a portion of God and a slice of life. As our voices articulate their language, others find freedom to do the same.
What is your language? What is your voice? Give breath to that which is in you to speak, so your corner of the world can be illuminated with the flavor and color of God. What language have you been given to speak?
