I'm listening

Thoughts are powerful.  Words, even more so.  For they are just thoughts spoken out into existence.  Inducing beingness where before there was nothing, but thoughts, trapped and waiting to be spoken.  Once released, they begin swirling and spinning and creating and eventually landing.  What do they create?  Depends on what was spoken.  Sometimes they create feelings of happiness, or love or of passion.  Sometimes they inspire and create a desire for action, for change. And sometimes they do not create at all, but accomplish just the opposite, like cutting knives destroying everything in their path.  I guess that is why it is sometimes said that "Some things are better left unsaid."  The effectiveness of words fully depends on who hears them  and how they are received.  One person may be deeply stirred by a spoken word, while another remains untouched.  This would depend on the life experiences that have shaped the listener and affected the reception of the words they hear.  Which causes me to wonder, how have my life experiences affected my reception?  For instance, when words of love are spoken, am I receiving them with my whole heart?  Would I even know if I weren't?  How sad to think we could be missing out because we can't fully receive, blocking the words from fulfilling their purpose, from creating something in us ( love, passion, life).  I choose to believe that I am fully capable of receiving these word creations.  I am convinced of this by the fact that I am deeply moved by many words, song lyrics, writings.  I have felt love being stirred in me by spoken words, felt passion ignited and the joy of being inspired.  And I am blissfully elated at the realization of my ability to embrace these words that are swirling and spinning and eventually landing, knowing full well that they are creating in me exactly what those who have spoken them intended.