There are three kinds of people: those who have found and use their authentic voices; those who talk simply to hear their own voices; and those who would like to use their authentic voice but can’t recognize it. Here’s what I’ve learned about recognizing your authentic voice:
- It repairs AND creates.
- It looks beyond what you are into the future and past simultaneously. It sees God’s original intent for your life and what you can one day again be.
- It calls you to joy even when the situation isn’t pretty.
- It speaks for the God in you.
- Its devotion is not divided.
- It does not sleep. It wakes.
- It does not struggle with words because it only speaks what your soul tells it to. No mouth can stumble over its soul’s script.
- It holds everything by giving it away.
- You can bury it, hide from it, refuse to use it, but you cannot destroy it. If you try, it will haunt you.
- It is the pinprick of Light that can transform the darkness.—Sean Johnson
