07/05/2026
🌹📿Words are spells. Words are magic. Words have power.
During a recent Rosary Club, one of our members in Spirit, Youssef, guided us in the judicious use of language. He was a great master of words; he spoke 7 languages and worked as a translator for scientific and business concerns.
He said: practice until our words ring out “clear like a crystal bell.’
“You have good intentions but don’t always make use of the tools available to make good decisions.”
- Calm your nervous system before you speak. Check in with your body. Get calm before responding.
- Run all your words through a “compassion filter,” like a sieve of kindness and understanding. The St. Francis prayer is a good place to start.
- Train yourself to work with your anger. It is a helpful signal about what needs to be addressed. It has a sacred purpose, but we use it as a tool, it doesn’t control us.
- When you’ve been hit by another person’s words, remember your energetic hygiene. Get grounded, clear yourself with light, and protect yourself with prayer and light. This is a daily practice.
- Make sure it is a decision how you react, not coming from a place of emotion.
- Don’t forget to “change the sheets,” a little phrase that had a double meaning. If you need to pause to reflect and heal, it will feel like crawling into a bed with fresh sheets. But then, be willing to turn the page to a fresh sheet of paper. Be willing to change, to write a new script, to “write a new song.”
- Prayers have power. Use the established prayers (eg. The Psalms) to leverage the power of a deep lineage of people who have spoken those words. But also speak to God in your own words. “We are writing a new song, a new psalm.”
- Don’t forget to plug into your team in spirit! It’s like a spiritual container for your words so they are focused and productive. Bring it all to Our Lady.
Thank you, Youssef, and Rosary Club for always teaching me how to be better and better as we work together to make a world of connection and intention and peace.
Photo: Basilica Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy, May 2025