October 02, 1992 • Page Image 25
…ry that message through the distance that separates you. The only thing that can bridge the distance is authentic speech, speech that comes from some- where deeper inside ourselves. "We use words as tools," wrote Abraham Joshua Heschel. "We forget that words are a repository of the spirit." We pray in words because to speak ' one's own sorrows is to learn them. ‘The prophet promised that one day God would take away our heart of stone ) and rep...…

















































