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Flesh and Word

In this season of Epiphany I always welcome new ways of understanding what it means that the Word of God has become flesh and dwells among us. In his fine sermon from the prologue to John’s gospel this past Sunday, Bill Smythe challenged us to ‘flesh out’ the Word in our daily living. As I sat in my home office Monday morning reading a very profound book I continued to contemplate this notion of Word and flesh, flesh and word. I looked around me and noticed all the shelves of books—I was literally surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. The words of people like Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Merton, St. Teresa of Avila—people whose lives literally fleshed out the Word of God. People who took the time and had the ability to put into words their experience of The Word. Books have always been important to me and lately they have been helpful spiritual guides. I give thanks for those fellow Christians who have mapped the journey with their words. Their words are companions on the way and often provide an aerial view, when I lose my way. --Peace, Mona