Michael's Random Thoughts and Photos on Spirituality

ristmas 2018     The average person speaks about 7,000 words per day.  Given the number of people on the planet, that comes to over 62 trillion words spoken per day.  I’d be delusional if I really thought thatI could speak a word or two that would make a  lasting difference.  Is anything I might say in this homily tonight of any real importance?     During this Holy Night we remember and celebrate God’s first and second Word.  For an eternity God’s first Word was and is silence.  When God spoke God’s second Word all of creation came, and continues to flow into being.  Out of an eternity of  loving silence all that exists flows into being and will continue to flow into being for all eternity.     God’s second Word wasn’t so much a word but an action born of an eternal unconditional love, a love that continues to hold everything in existence.  Without God’s love nothing would matter or make sense.     All that I have shared so far is a bit abstract, but this Holy Night is not about abstr