Ordinary words

Some words are too big, too intense – compassion, love, suffering, joy, freedom, madness – I substitute caring, kindness, discomfort, contentment, confusion … more ordinary processes, milder, attainable. 

 

A Lord speaking to his people would have known how to connect by using familiar words for familiar experiences.  A Lord would have known that exalted language would not carry the message of is.

 

And all the re- words pull backwards, into what Brach calls 'the trance'

re-gret - to weep again

re-member - to keep in the mind

re-cover – going back to prior state