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Get One Good Word

We are surrounded by bad words. By “bad words” I don’t mean “swear words” so much as wasteful or harmful words. Every day, we are invited to an all you can eat buffet of content. I consume a lot of content, I’ll admit. But human beings can’t live on content alone. We are desperate for good, timely, life-giving words.

No wonder those 3rd century seekers would approach the desert fathers and mothers with the soul-deep supplication: “Abba/Amma give me a word.”