Ex Nihilo is a Latin phrase meaning 'out of nothing'.

Ex nihilo is a concept that we find in nearly all creation narratives, especially the ones in the ancient Middle East, where creation is formed out of formless matter, chaos*.

Do you remember 'the Nothing' in the film The Neverending Story? The Nothing was destroying the kingdom Fantasia, reducing it to, well, nothing. The way to defeat The Nothing was to call out the name of the childlike empress, and create a new world.

Words, names, give form to chaos. We see this in creation narratives too, especially in Genesis. Creation is spoken into being from nothing, from chaos.

The question then for you and I then is, what are we using our words and lives to do? To call creation out of chaos, life from death, or to destroy, separate, and tear down?

Something to ponder.

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