Words create

In class today, we talked about how ineffectual words can be to actually communicate. What I mean when I say something may or may not be what you think I mean. Even when we both think the communication was clear, there may be a complete lack of understanding.

In our tradition, words were used to create the world. We are in the image of God, so every time we speak, we create. Tradition teaches that the world is in a continual state of creation.

Words create worlds. When someone speaks, what do their words create in you? Isn't that how communication works: we create in someone else. It makes all of our words so much more powerful, and should make us so much more careful about what we say.