When do your words become the Word of God? It's possible that they could, in daily life, in your interactions with others!

Here is a quote from the late Orthodox theologian, Alexander Schmemann:

"Our world is incredibly verbal and we are so constantly flooded by words which have lost their meaning and therefore their power. Christianity reveals the sacredness of the word -- a truly Divine gift to humanity. For this reason our speech is endowed with tremendous power, either positive or negative....

"To control speech is to recover its seriousness and its sacredness, to understand that sometimes an innocent 'joke,' which we proffered without even thinking about it, can have disastrous results -- can be that last 'drop' which pushes a person into ultimate despair and destruction. But the word can also be a witness. A casual conversation across the desk with a colleague can do more for communicating a vision of life, an attitude toward others or toward work, than formal preaching. It can sow the seeds of a question, of the possibility of a different approach to life, the desire to know more.

"We have no idea how, in fact, we constantly influence one another by our words, by the very 'tonality' of our personality. And ultimately people are converted to God, not because someone was able to give brilliant explanations, but because they saw in the other person that light, joy, depth, seriousness, love which alone reveal the presence and the power of God in the world."