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Don’t never stop being HOPEFUL
Don’t never stop being kind & cheerful
Don’t never stop loving life and people
Don’t never stop loving the Lord with mind heart and soul
The use of a double negative is done with intent and purpose. A negative like, don’t touch is most often an invitation to have the object in question touched. Human hearts dislike being told what to do, and especially dislike being told, “no!”
So take these double negatives as positivity multiplied.
dou·ble neg·a·tive
/ • a positive statement in which two negative elements are used to produce the positive force, usually for some particular rhetorical effect, for example there is not nothing to worry about!.
We build our personal world within the global world with the words that proceed from our mouths. So, if words matter as I believe they do, perhaps the idiom TGIF is not a great thing.
“Teachers first instruct, then examine you. God examines you, then instructs you.” In the winter of 1966, I said, “Yes.” After months of deliberation, I made the profound decision to ask the Lord Jesus Christ into my life…
In my mid-20’s during a powerful training session, a respected leader presented a strong case that words matter . It was then my philosophical and psychological views dramatically changed.