Heart Pocket Word for the Day is Effusive!

 

The word from my heart pocket is Effusive.

It's sometimes the way it is. We just gush and let it out and say ... everything. 

It's not good or bad. It's ... effusive. So we are exuberant and feel strongly. So we are overflowing with emotion - positive or negative - and we let it overtake our reserve and out it pours, onto everyone and everything.

To be effusive can be good.

We effuse when our child gets the lead in the play (even when he's the 3rd angel on the left). We are verbose when we win the Academy Award. We lose ourselves to the win at the Superbowl and we write volumes of poetry when we are in love.

To be effusive is to overflow. When we cannot contain our feelings, our thoughts, our inner music - we let it go. We dance until dawn. We write until there are no more words. We cheer until we have no more voice. We ...

When we feel strongly, it is not our nature to be close-mouthed and reticent and unsociable. We can be that way but most often we choose that behavior because something is holding us back. No, we are naturally effusive and it is just fine to want to express ourselves.

To be unrestrained can be viewed as inappropriate. Some churches don't care for effusion. Some meetings require a more reserved approach. Classrooms prefer a quiet demeanor and effusion in a library is ...

So effusion might be saved for a place where it is valued. Effusion is an extravagant way of being. Effusion, as enthusiastic as it might be, is meant for ...

... for anywhere - churches, meetings, classrooms and yes, even librarians are effusive. Remember the word discernment? It comes into play here ...

Notice what makes you effusive. Politics? Religion? Education? Family? Creating? Exercise? Nature? Fashion? Now look behind it. What is it that draws you?  Righteousness? Justice? Compassion? Order? Chaos? Love? If you look, you will see the field that holds the earth, ready to burst with growth and bloom. You will recognize it immediately and it is a reason for your being. Effusion tells us what is important to us. What lies at the core of our effusiveness that tells the tale. 

Get out there and radiate, effuse. Find something to get excited about. Enjoy yourself. Let yourself go. Bubble up. Whatever it is you love, let it love you back and together, plant the seed.