Black Friday...

I woke up feeling a little unsure how I would "make it" today – no negative words?! Then I started thinking about how to replace the negative words with positive ones, instead of just avoiding something, moving towards something. I'm hoping that I will seek every chance I have to speak positive words into the airwaves today. I'm hoping people find me really encouraging and optimistic and kind towards them today.

I'm hoping each of us is taught something today about our words.

I ran across this "translation" a while back and found it kind of inspiring and wanted to share it.

Were our mouth as full of song as the sea, and our tongue as full of joyous song as its multitude of waves, and our lips as full of praise as the breadth of the heavens, and our eyes as brilliant as the sun and the moon, and our hands as outspread as the eagles of the sky and our feet as swift as hinds -- we still could not thank You sufficiently, HaShem our God and God of our forefathers, and to bless Your Name for even one of the thousand thousand, thousands of thousands and myriad myriads of favors, miracles and wonders that you performed for our ancestors and for us. At first You redeemed us from Egypt, Hashem our God, and liberated us from the house of bondage. In famine You nourished us, and in plenty you sustained us. From sword you saved us; from plague you let us escape; and from severe and enduring diseases you spared us. Until now Your mercy has helped us, and Your kindness has not forsaken us. Do not abandon us, Hashem our God, forever. Therefore the organs that you set within us and the spirit and soul that you breathed into our nostrils, and the tongue that you placed in our mouth - all of them shall thank and bless and praise and glorify, exalt and revere, be devoted, sanctify and declare the sovereignty of Your Name, our King. For every mouth shall offer thanks to You; every tongue shall vow allegiance to You; every knee shall bend to You; every erect spine shall prostrate itself before You; all hearts shall fear You; and all innermost feelings and thoughts shall sing praises to Your name, as it is written: "All my bones shall say, ‘Hashem who is like You? You save the poor man from one who is stronger than he, the poor and destitute from the one who would rob him."
(English Translation of Nishmat Kol Chai Prayer)