I took another hiatus from writing. In the past I have used my blog as a sort of on-line catharsis and place to share the world – which is entitled to my opinion! – to my meandering beliefs.
I had come to a point where I had nothing to say.
It is not that there was not much to think about, God knows that the current state of politics creates situations that are in and of themselves satiric.
I just felt that I was needing to be silent for a bit.
The silence is broken, for better or worse.
There is an account in Genesis of the creation of the world: it begins in silence. That silence remains while all is formless and void; darkness caresses the waters and the winds whipped them into chaos. There was no commentary, simply the silence of God. And then God spoke…
That act of speaking was what began creation. It is significant that this is not creatio ex nihilo; it is an ordering of a preexistent, albeit chaotic, environment. God speaks and land appears, darkness and light are separated, and life is made possible. Language is too powerful to be trivialized. Words have power that we all too often underestimate. They create and destroy, even before violence and healing can occur.
For better or worse, the fool is back.
