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Head and Tail

In the words of Abraham Herschel, “Words create worlds.” Whatever the reason of this Jewish Theologian maybe, we all know that words are not tangible. Therefore, we can’t touch nor see them. Further, why is it that an abstract thing seems to have an exceptional power of infiltrating our hearts either by creating a word of bliss-people understand each other’s limitations-or a world of chaos-belittling and destroying one another?

According to Aristotle, “Life is the motion within (sui motio ab instrinsico)” If absorbed, we can draw that before the life of the universe existed before it gone complex, there’s someone or a being who started its magnificent movement. Perhaps for religious philosophers they call it “The Unmoved Mover”, “The Prime Mover” or “The Being” but for us Catholics it is simply God.

One May think that God differs from the word and what I am explaining to you right now is irrelevant. This might be the perception that God created the grandiose wonders of this earth; the waves of the ocean, the kiss of the rain, the delight of the sky, the marvels of the mountains and hills, the greatness of the animals wild and tame, and most especially the brilliance of mankind. While on the other hand, the word doesn’t create material objects.

However, if we anchor ourselves on the biblical passages from John, “In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God and the Word was God; he was in the beginning in God”, “ And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us… fullness of truth and loving kindness” and Genesis’ “So God created man in his image, in the likeness of him”

Technically, we are all created by the Word itself that is why we human beings share the same “GODness” so to say. There, we can answer why a word can construct unity because every word shares a power from the source which is God. Thus every word is good per se. Even frustrate, chaos and the like are all sound in terms of their respective existence. But, these words become so forceful when a person delivers such words strongly or a person displays grimace while uttering it.

How about “You’re a nonsense!” Well, this message can’t be considered good because what we share from the divine is only love and its absence results to hurt and bitterness. Our words and the self are inseparable. However, word is not the only thing we share from the creator there’s also freedom, that is independence leaning toward good and an invitation to become prudent and sensitive to the words we speak and to the expression we show.