No Words
Posted by | Posted in Leadership, Personal Growth | Posted on 18-02-2010
Used under the CC license. Photo by stibbons.
I was shooting some video last night for a Mission Trip report at my church. The lady that I was shooting had just returned from her first trip to Honduras. Now you have to understand that I have shot video before with this person and she is usually very nervous in front of the camera and is in a hurry to get finished. This makes her seem very rehearsed and plastic.
Last night was different. She began to tell a story, a story about an 11 year old Honduran girl that she met in the village. A story of how she made friends with this little girl by letting her rub cocoa butter on a scar on her arm (my talent had recently broken her wrist and had several surgeries). A story of how a relationship was born even though neither one of them spoke the others language. It was powerful.
She ended by saying that she had realized that perhaps her least effective form of communication was her words. That struck me. Maybe as Christians sometimes the best thing that we can do is to simply shut up and allow our actions to speak. After all, they’ll know we are Christians by our love.
Here is the raw, unedited story that she told.
No Words from Ken Summerall on Vimeo.
