‘Words are the medication to treat fear...' Photo: Raphael Schaller / Unsplash.
Thought for the week: George Macpherson has some words on the Word
‘Words are the medication to treat fear: they are the start of solutions.’
What gives us the right to rule the planet? Surely it’s the knowledge gathered from our forebears over millennia through language: words. Perhaps that’s what St John is referring to in the first chapter of his Gospel: ‘In the beginning was the Word.’