timer and passing values to methods from timer event

Question

need some help trying to pass a value from a timer event

 

this is my timer event and method being called  Mywords ()

 _ourwordLength; is an instance variable that is returned by a method

 am calling getlength  ie  int getlength(int _ourwordLength ){ return _ourwordLength; }

 private static int _ourwordLength;

 

public void Timer_tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Mywords(_ourwordLength);
}
  The method am passing value to is below

 

 

public void Mywords( int length)
{

var ResourceStream = Application.GetResourceStream(new Uri("TextFile1.txt", UriKind.Relative));
using (Stream Myfilestream = ResourceStream.Stream)
{
string s = "";
StreamReader myStreamReader = new StreamReader(Myfilestream);
s = myStreamReader.ReadToEnd();
// string regExp;
if (length == 5)
{
MywordsLength();
} 

 The problem i have is once the value _ourwordLength is passed to the Timer event  where am calling the mywords method its is not being passed to the

mywords method help on this plis