The Word

I can almost hear it.

It must have been a Breath that sounded like an echoing expelling of air at the beginning of things.  It came flowing and pushing the waters at its center.  Droplets were thrown into the air and pooled from their center out, out over the whole of the universe.  The waters took up the Breath and the motion of the Breath and began to breath also from that single Breath. Waves were formed and they continued that breath in an out, chasing back and forth across the surface of the earth.
And then there was a Word and it was with the earth and small creatures were nudged into being by the Thoughts of the One God.

Our words because we are His creatures have a great power to invite, to create, to cause to grow; or to criticize, to condemn, to fill with thoughts of hellish worlds casting those that eat of them into places of soul destroying darkness.

How careful we have to be that our words are Love.

A Contribution for

Orthodox Synchroblog  

Others contributing to this month’s Synchroblog are:

• Katherine Bolger Hyde of God-Haunted Fiction on Eat Your Words
• Annalisa Boyd of The Ascetic Lives of Mothers on Let the Words of My Mouth
• Cristina Perdomo of Reachingfromadistance on Cement
• Dn Stephen Hayes of Khanya on What’s that you were saying?
• Donna Farley of The Rafters Scriptorium on Few and True
• Elizabeth Perdomo of Living a Liturgical Life on What About Words?
• Fr John D’Alton of Fr John D’Alton on How we use our words- jihad or struggle?
• Beverly Cooke of Bevnal Abbey Scriptorium on Words and Their Use
• Jane G. Meyer of The Sounding Orthodox Blog on Dear Critical Self
• Father Lawrence Farley of Straight From the Heart on The Limits of Verbal Communication
• Susan Cushman of Pen & Palette on How We Use Our Words: “Christian” is Not an Adjective