A Life is a Word Spoken

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“...a life is a word spoken. It cannot be taken back once uttered. It is a seed launched upon the wind for a brief flight, then planted in the soil, where it sleeps for a time. Many are the elements that make the harvest: sun and rain, heat and cold, plowing and sowing, the season of bounty and the season when creation dies.

...Few would hear him, fewer would comprehend. Perhaps only the mother with her child, the father with his son, and the writer with his grief. They understood the end of words. Their lives had been spoken, and so shifted, a little, the balance of the world.”

~Michael O’Brien (from Sophia House)