Two of The Most Powerful Words

Two words... uttered, spoken, whispered, lip-synced, shown with a hug, expressed with a kiss on the cheek, felt with the squeezing of one's hand in another's, shared with a gentle smile, the turning of a head and a smile, they are written on paper, left on voice mail, they are emailed first priority all over the world from person to person and from place to place. From one country to another country, from leader to leader resonating from race to race, ethnicity to ethnicity, from a  mom to a son, from a son to a dad, from a daughter to her mother, from a mother to her children, from a grandparent to a favorite grandchild, from a brother to a brother, and from a daughter who loves her dad.  
     Sometimes these words are spoken with the most genuine of emotions and deepest of sincerity, other times you hear them spoken, but you feel no truth that accompanies them from the person, or persons from which they were spoken with no depth.  Yet the pure in heart know the impact that these two words have, because they are woven into the essence of one's being, they exude themselves with character, a personal touch of gratitude that heal the deepest and most invisible of emotional wounds.  We hear them as children, we think nothing of them, we see them modeled through precepts and shown by example, we feel them with a certain quality of simplicity and with the method of generosity which sometimes can never be measured.  The texture of these two words, reaches us like no other words ever exerted through the finely crafted composition of twin mucous membranes called "vocal chords."  Yet, there's one characteristic of these two words that can only be generated by one thing -the heart.  Otherwise they just float in the air, carry no substance, or with no feeling forcefully making their way robotically out of a cold heart, and over pail lips, coming from a truthfully ungrateful heart.  

     These two words have a history that reaches back days, weeks, months, years, decades and centuries beyond our first knowledge of them, still no one after being born into this world will ever escape saying them...we are destined to speak them. We hear them at birth, we hear them at death, we hear them throughout the course of life, through our successes, failures, challenges and triumphs.  These two words grace the stage of every socioeconomic platform in life, they have no prejudice, no respect of person, no limitation with which arena of life that can or cannot be measured. There are so many more things that I could say about these two profoundly powerful words, but it would take much more time to do so, because I know not of the experiences that have caused you the reader to utter them, while reflecting back into your own personal life's journal.  The ability to speak them is powerful, the ability to hear them is soothing, the ability to feel them, life changing.  However, there is one thing that I have learned so poignantly, without reservation and with assuredness, -they are, the two most powerful words in the world -Thank You.