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"Let your conversation be always full of grace..." -Colossians 4:6

Increasingly, I am more and more pulled, attracted and drawn to a people group of a different tongue, a different language. This language does not originate from any of the spoken languages on earth. Rather it originates from a language that can only be taught from above..it's a sort of heavenly language. You cannot just learn how to manipulate your tongue and lips to make the sounds of this language, for its distinct and unique sounds are not formed in the mouth. It's formed in the heart.

What exactly is this bizarre 'heavenly language'? It's a language which has all its conversations and dialogues bathed in grace. Foremost it's affirming and life-giving. Not nagging and life-sucking. It's kind, gentle, and can effectively deliver truth that's hard to receive in a fashion that is not harsh yet sharp enough to cut through ice. It's full of grace, it's spoken carefully instead of carelessly, sincerely instead of deceitfully "nice".

I once held the notion that this was the way wimps or the weak and flaky spoke. But I'm learning from my experiences being spoken to from others who speak this language of grace, that this notion is very far from the truth.

It is a language that reflects a heart that is strong, mature, loving, sensitive yet secure and confident while also humble. It is a language that I'm coming to believe, is best learned as any other foreign language is learned..by immersion. Yet it's speakers are rare and few. May I find more and more of these people who speak this language, so I can learn it too! For I believe it slowly transforms the listener from the heart..for it is from the overflow of the heart that one speaks.

Even though this is a foreign language to most on earth, there requires no interpreter for it's the native language that all hearts crave and can understand for it's what the heart of mankind was created to receive. While it's foreign and rare...once you've heard it spoken, it's crystal clear what it's meaning is, for it's a heavenly language of grace, and it speaks a message like it's original Speaker does..foremost the message of love..in grace and truth. We are soon to be celebrating the birth of the One who speaks this language so perfectly.

Merry Christmas..