{"id":28146,"date":"2015-10-16T00:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T04:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=28146"},"modified":"2015-10-15T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T18:33:40","slug":"speak-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/16\/speak-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Some days, life feels perfect<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Other days it just ain&#8217;t workin<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The good, the bad, the right, the wrong<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And everything in between<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Though it&#8217;s crazy, amazing<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> We can turn a heart with the words we say<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Mountains crumble with every syllable<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Hope can live or die<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">So speak Life, speak Life<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> To the deadest darkest night<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Speak life, speak Life<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When the sun won&#8217;t shine and you don&#8217;t know why<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Look into the eyes of the brokenhearted<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Watch them come alive as soon as you speak hope,<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You speak love, you speak<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You speak Life, (oh oh oh oh oh oh)<br \/>\nYou speak Life. (oh oh oh oh oh oh)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Some days the tongue gets twisted<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Other days my thoughts just fall apart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I do, I don&#8217;t, I will, I won&#8217;t<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m drowning in the deep<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Well it&#8217;s crazy to imagine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Words from our lips as the arms of compassion<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Mountains crumble with every syllable<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Hope can live or die<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Lift your head a little higher<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Spread the love like fire<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Hope will fall like rain<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When you speak life with the words you say<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Raise your thoughts a little higher<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Use your words to inspire<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Joy will fall like rain<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When you speak life with the things you say<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8230;Some days life feels perfect<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7rK6O0YtBRY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Toby Mac<\/em><br \/>\nwritten along with Jamie Moore, Ryan Stevenson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The tongue can bring death or life;<br \/>\nthose who love to talk will reap the consequences.<br \/>\nProverbs 18:21<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It still amazes me when I think of the reality of this verse&#8230;and the power we hold in our words. \u00a0We are given a choice each day to <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>speak life<\/strong><\/span>, or speak death. \u00a0We can uplift, or we can tear down. \u00a0I try to teach my kids often the importance of this lesson. \u00a0Whether in school or at home, I want them to know that their words carry a significant amount of weight. \u00a0We, as adults, need to remember this as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the heat of the moment, we can choose to use our words as weapons or as blessings. \u00a0By remembering that our words will make an impact even after they are long since spoken may help us to remember to consider them more carefully. \u00a0As the words of this song remind us, despite our situation, despite how we may feel, we need to remember to choose to <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>speak life<\/em><\/span> with our words&#8212;life for ourselves and life for others.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">What do your words mean to you? \u00a0What do they mean to others?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dear Heavenly Father, teach us to consider our words more carefully than we have been. \u00a0Remind us to speak life when we are tempted to do otherwise. \u00a0In Jesus&#8217; name we pray, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, life feels perfect Other days it just ain&#8217;t workin The good, the bad, the right, the wrong And everything in between Though it&#8217;s crazy, amazing We can turn a heart with the words we say Mountains crumble with every syllable Hope can live or die So speak Life, speak Life To the deadest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[1287,425,9533,816,4932,9532,6202,9531,1075],"class_list":["post-28146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-our-words-speak-life-or-death","tag-proverbs-1821","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-speak-life","tag-toby-mac","tag-toby-mackeehan","tag-tonya-ellison","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-7jY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28148,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions\/28148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}