Speaking the languages and the mediums of Love! How can we translate our love into the other person’s language and into their medium. The best medium they receive the weight and impartation of that love? One of the questions i often ask in communicating with friends globally is how can convey the message, the love, in a way which imparts the tone of my heart towards them?! What is the medium which most blesses them, and allows them to receive the love I have in my heart for them.

The key is discerning love regardless of medium. There are different weights of communication. We can discern them on line or off. Tone is everything, of course, but also considering how to speak in the tone of love in a medium which makes sense to the other person, matters!

There are different levels of intimacy, but when everything is equalized in media, we have to discern the weights of glory, the inner tone and weight of each communication. That’s just part of discerning the heart in our times!

Social media can challenge this, but can also be a great source of blessing to those who receive in that medium. I have some friends who can send two words via text or chat, and I cry from the amount of Love behind and between the lines. Others, i like a whole letter, with paragraphs and commas. It’s interesting the weight of communication in an era when there is so much communication. It’s still probably primarily about the intentions of the heart! How discern love behind and in between the words, becomes the receiver’s challenge!

I think you still can sense the weight of love behind the words, regardless of medium! Everyone is different, some people need that face to face in order to know Love. Other’s a long email, others a quick caring like. Good to know what makes you feel and enter Love, and also how others receive it.

But it is always about looking at the heart’s intention behind a gesture of love! That’s what i try to do anyway. And pray into figuring out what might make this person feel the most loved by my communication! Everyone is unique in that–how they receive love and give it! Of course, my dad delineated the five love languages, but how to put those in the many mediums now available to us is a new and exciting challenge, i think! Is this person a text person, a Facebook person, a long hand written letter person, a go visit face to face person etc. Good to consider as stewards of Love!

How can speak love in one another’s mediums of reception! This is an especially important question in a social media age! And it’s also often, a generational question. How can I convey my care to this person in their language, and in a medium which carries the weight of that Love!

The languages but also the mediums of Love matter. How the other person best receives your love matters. And is worth considering. I often ask before writing someone, since my language is language itself—words; is this the best medium to convey my heart’s care for them. Is email or a hardcopy letter better; is a phone call, a text… each of my friends tend to communicate in a unique medium. Should i make them a piece of art to express my care (which is one of my favorites!). Should i just go see them, or plan a weekend with them? Should I like their posts etc…good to think about not just the language, but now the medium to convey our love for one another in this era!

Jesus would feed or make breakfast for some people. For others, teach them, like Nicodemos; at other times, he would just sit with people to let them know they were loved. His Heart was always love, but He translated it into many mediums. So should we. So, what and how God is communicating His love to others both matter! Good media meditation today! For, the mediums carry the messages of Love.

Can I learn to speak better not just in the languages of love, but in the mediums which carry this love into another’s heart?! Been thinking about and trying to practice that recently!

Just as when reading a book or poem,to get towards the real meaning, we have to ask, what is the author’s tone–his or her orientation towards the words. So it is with modern media. The heart is what matters most in interpretation. Then as the heart grows, learning to speak on one another’s love languages and mediums become part of discerning and expressing God’s orientation towards one another!

Fun thinking about language and mediums both expressing our love towards one another well! Let’s become masters of communicating Love into one another’s hearts! Let’s become more like Word made flesh towards one another, and into one another’s lives!