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Be a Voice, Not an Echo!

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This is something I am trying to figure out right now. I know plenty of people who write things based off of other sources or speak using material they didn’t create themselves and end up quoting or paraphrasing what the previous author had said.

But how do you be a voice and not just an echo?

When you go through training with a school or university and speak about it aren’t you really just echoing what you have learned? Aren’t you pretty much voicing the same ideas as the place you got the from did but just with a different persepective? However, is that bad? Is that wrong? If so, does that mean that you have no original thoughts of your own?

However, Ecclesasties 1:9-10 says “9 That which has been is what will be, that which done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under then sun. 10 Is there anything of which it may be said, “See, this is new”?…”

So if there is nothing that you can look at and say “This is new” then should no one “create” things, or come up with “new” ideas? Of course not. This is what has been done since the beginning of time. We take things that already exist and re-create them because only one is uncreated and can truly work with “new stuff”. We must then continue to work with “old stuff” and go through the process of re-creating, shifting, forming and coming up with something like new because it is new to some and even new to many to those who have not heard, or have not seen.

So what does it mean to “Be a Voice” ?

When you are a voice for unborn children does that mean you have to come up with your own way to tell others about the murder that is going on around the globe? Does that mean that you can’t stand on the line with others who are already a voice?

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