If you want to understand the power of words, examine the power of a sperm. It is responsible for 7 billion of us here on earth right now.

Yes.

Words do have ‘spermatozoa’ That impregnable ability to impregnate minds,hearts and spirit with ideas or conceptions until it gives birth to its own self.

 Words form the seed, the mind is the ovary and the body is the womb. Which means, when you speak, your words become the seed that fertilizes the ovary of your mind and then as you think, you become in your body.

 I’ve witnessed many make it because of words and I’ve seen many shattered because of words. I’ve seen the lives of people turn around in few weeks because of words and I’ve known someone go crazy because of words. Take me serious. I’m not kidding. I’ve seen them.

I feel very passionate when I speak about words because I myself, I was born from words. Why don’t you right now pick that phone and tell your lover, your mum, your dad, your boss, your subordinate that you’re sorry, that you appreciate what has been done for you? Why don’t you reverse that curse you spoke on that child who made you regret the day you gave birth to her, to him? Why do you want the child to suffer that un-forgiveness for the rest of his life, for the rest of her life?

You may not know or understand the sleepless nights we’ve had as your children because you spoke negative words over our lives in your anger. You have no idea how that little word of ‘I’m proud of you’. I think you’re gonna be great one day’ have had tremendous impact on our lives.

I had a conversation with an interesting man. He told me. ‘Beatrice, when I was growing up, my mum always told me I was so stubborn and gave her so much pain so she said I would never get a good woman to marry. I’m 40 now and struggling to keep the woman I have in my life’. What happened here? The product of words. In my article ‘should I dress fully to work or half naked at work?’, I told you how I had to struggle to accept my stature due to the words I heard in my environment. I’m glad to tell you that it took words to uproot that seed that had fertilized the ovary of my mind.

 I like 59 year old former US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. I think she’s phenomenal. I read a book about how words from her parents probably put her in the white house. And I think I should like John and Angelena Rice; her parents for speaking those powerful words. I’m not talking so much about her political career or what advice she gave to President Bush or not. I’m talking about how words from her parents put her where she found herself.

Rice says during her youth in segregated Alabama in the 1960s, she stood in front of the White House. This was during a family trip to Washington DC. She recalls her parents had her convinced that “even if I couldn’t have a hamburger at Woolworth’s counter, I could grow up to be the President of the United States”. (Please find it here too. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130425923)

Hillary Clinton is another woman who talks of how her mum subtly influenced her with words as well.

I love my mum. She taught me a number of lessons. May her soul rest in perfect peace. But I remember growing up in my town in the Eastern Region, I wanted to be a tomboy; perhaps due to the influence of some of the foreign movies I used to watch. One day I got home from playing netball on my primary school campus. When I arrived, my mum had returned from her journey to the Western Region terminally ill. She got angry when she realized I was not home when she arrived.

The moment she saw me as she lay in the sofa, she said, ‘If you don’t stop this your tomboy thing, some boy is going to get you pregnant in your teens as you are’. Oops! This was I think a week before she passed on. It stayed in my mind; in fact, it tormented me and always made me feel some guy was going to forcibly get me pregnant as a teen. Ah. Thank God He kept me safe. How did I get free from that? Words in a form of prayer got me out of that. And I was free. I’m sure you’re aware there’re spiritual implications of words. That’s another book. I won’t talk about that here.

It doesn’t hurt to speak life back into that child’s life. Why don’t you start now? Is he in the kitchen or studying in the room? Please call him. Call her and start now. It doesn’t cost a penny to say I was wrong, I need you. Don’t let that man go away with your irreparable words, don’t let that good girl pass you by with your provocative words. It doesn’t cost the whole world to speak great words. But generations can be wiped off with your words. The choice is yours. I think I made mine.

Please, let me hear from you. Email me at claireadu@yahoo.com or visit my page on facebook..’ Beatrice Adu’ and let’s start the conversation.