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Who's Responsible?

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Who's Responsible?
Pastor Mark Martin

Bound within the everlasting flesh of humanity and crafted from eons of culture and tradition, comes a small rhapsody of emotions and feelings that many overlook. It seems small and insignificant, being used across the globe as a means to communicate, identify, and understand so much so that such a melody appears commonplace. However, it is in these very actions that this mellifluous song begins to take root, expanding upon its power and foundation, broadening its reach until every note has reached the most desolate and isolated geographies of the world with its almost ethereal sound through the verbalization of shouts of hope and horrendous calls of war.

Each and every member of humanity has the ability to utilize it, personalizing and melding such a enchanting power into his or her own. This song, this ability, is the syllables and sounds crafted from speaking, from using words. The ability to craft melodious songs of words through the combinations of letters and syllables requires meticulous precision and knowledge, as words are the greatest force in the world. Strings of words have been used as the very stones on which empires are built and as the very stones which tear them down.

Although inspiring and idyllic, with this power comes the greatest responsibility a person can imagine. In this world of injustice, there are no innocent bystanders, only those who sit by and do not use their voices to create dulcet words of protection for the lost, the disenfranchised, the innocents as they are struck down into the bleakness of silence.

Words must be used to defend those who cannot speak for themselves, those who have been oppressed and forced to be hold their voices within themselves. Such a responsibility cannot go unchecked. it is only when one speaks out, speaks up, that injustice and prejudice become hindered, causing harmful views, beliefs, and ideologies to be questioned. It it when one speaks up with knowledge in their minds and love in their hearts that ignorance can be destroyed and life can begin to meander toward a more just society. All in all, it is the greatest responsibility for a citizen of the planet to understand that although words are the most powerful force on earth, it is the voice that speaks them that gives them the greatest power.


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