Sunday, March 18, 2007 Cariño: The word By Linda Grace Cariño Paradigm Shift
"IN THE beginning, there was the word." Thus goes one line of well-known scripture. More scripture, the story of Creation in the book of Genesis to be exact, has God commanding forth Light from darkness, form from formlessness. God called the Light "day" and darkness, "night." With the Word, God commanded forth and named sky, land, and seas.
And so on for six famous days. That is how goes the quintessential story of how all things came to be, from the Word.
God as the Word is the commanding force that decreed all things into being. It is the power to create, likewise given unto God's children. From the Book of Job: "Thou shalt decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways." Such power is quite beyond awesome.
We use it without even knowing we do. Writing, for example, effects itself. Which is why I sometimes wonder at the likes of horror writers like Stephen King. Somehow, methinks, they bring upon themselves the horror they create with the word.
We misuse it to fatal consequences. To damn someone for example, can affect said someone, unless s/he is protected be his/her own powers of the word. What is more certain is that s/he who does the damning damns him/herself as surely as night follows day. Just one of many examples of the adage that what one sends around comes back, multiplied in force, yet.
It can then only stand to reason that we should make conscious use of the power of the word to change our world for the better. Let us avoid the trap of using words without thinking. Let us instead work some decree power to actually manifest what is good. Done with a nod to the gods and to the God of all, the Word can change the world just as surely as it brought it forth in the first place.
