words

The words we use describe and in turn define the reality in which we live.

They can build or destroy. They can take apart and put back together. How we use words matters. Perhaps for me as a part of the Judeo-Christian tradition, such an idea comes with the territory. The book of words we call sacred in this tradition begins with God creating using nothing more than words - a call to come into being. All of the rest of the words may be heard as a continuation of that initial call. God speaks and Abram and Sarai take off for a new land; Moses hears words coming from a burning bush; Isaiah sings a song of the wolf laying down with the lamb; a wild man speaks of a messiah coming; Paul argues there is no longer Jew or Greek.

Words keep circling within me, trying to come together, to make sense, to describe what I see, make sense and define the reality in which I live...