Give me a word : the promise of an ancient practice to guide your year

"Your word is shimmering just beneath the surface, waiting for you to receive it. Beginning in around the third century AD, a group of monastics known as the desert mothers and fathers retreated to the desert in northern Egypt, Syria, and Palestine to pursue a life of silence and prayer. A key phrase, repeated often throughout the sayings of the desert mothers and fathers, is "give me a word." This tradition of asking for a word was a way of seek...