The Tongue of Angels

Ryan Sharp

Comm 150 2:00pm MWF

Tongue of Angels

2-17-2010

The power of language in a relationship cannot be underestimated. I think the power of words can change the way we think of ourselves and of others. It can have the power to motivate us, depress us, and change us into becoming someone better or worse. It’s amazing to think as Elder Holland used an example of how God Himself used words to create the worlds. If words can have that kind of power than imagine what they can do to us in our relationships, our families, our friends, our coworkers, and everyone else.

In order to make your language more like the tongue of angels, you need to first understand the power that they can have. It’s important to understand that words carry messages with them that can have a huge emotional impact on both the sender and the receiver. They can change the way we feel and the way we act. I think that words almost always arise from our thoughts so it would be important to remember that we need to change our thoughts in order to change our language.

We have to clear and cleanse our minds in order to speak with the tongue of angels. If our minds are unclean, then our language will probably also be unclean and even malicious. Sometimes we say things that we don’t mean, but it still usually happens because we thought about it beforehand and we let our emotions control our behavior.

Once we cleanse our minds, then we can have the power and the control to only say words of encouragement, praise, and complimenting. We’ll have only positive thoughts and intentions and our language will show that. It’s also important to avoid judgement of others. This can easily lead us to have negative impressions of people, which leads to unkind thoughts of them, which leads further to speaking out at them with unkind words. I like to think of words as like the third or fourth step down the line of how we process our language. It shows up as a combination of thoughts and impressions.

I’m reminded of the Dr. Emoto experiment where he found that the water molecules had changed because of the words that were spoken. I believe the way we feel when someone speaks kind or unkind words to us is at least partly due to our physical makeup and molecular composition. If words can create worlds, they can definitely create biological changes in us that can change our countenance and our feelings about ourselves.

One of the biggest problems I see among friends with language is that it often involves joking around, which is funny at first until someone is emotionally hurt from it even if they said they were joking. Sometimes joking has some partial truth to it, and the receiver perceives it that way. Joking is okay in many cases, but it’s not okay when it is designed to bring people down or disrespect them. If people can avoid joking around with name calling or negative words to others, then we would all have language much closer to the tongue of angels.