A Thought About Words
The journey of spiritual transformation is one that is built on words. Words that create worlds. Specifically, one Word that created and sustained and redeemed the world.
That’s why when John says “the Word became flesh and dwelled among us” he could have added a second layer that was “and that scrambled our vocabulary forever.” Why?
Some Words In The Silence
When it comes to COVID-19 we want words that tell us that everything will be normal again. Our deep desire is to wake up to hear words – miracle words – that the “curve” now looks more like Kansas than Appalachia.
In the silence, we surrender the words because we are there to surrender the outcomes.
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speaking the language of the team
The language we use for the things that give us joy, that bring us pain, the way we talk about our challenges and struggles, they all draw an outline around the figure of our soul as we move through space. We often take these teachings to apply to individual speech acts. What I say, what my child says, what I respond to – and yet it has to be bigger than that. And it is.
Because we always learn our words in community.