What is “Echo”?

 “Now you are an echo,
but one day you will find your own voice.”

Though I deeply respect the person who spoke these words to me — and I understand the intent — I sometimes wonder: what if the world needs fewer voices and more echoes?

“Never before have so many
said so much about so little to so few.”

In a world driven by social media and filtered through unseen algorithms, this sad reality rings all too true.

The desire for self-expression carries our voices further than we ever imagined. Yet somewhere along the way, the noise drowns out all but the loudest and most provocative words.

Rather than adding my voice to the static, I now seek to echo the harmony of those who have sung the Creator’s song through the ages.

• I seek to echo the WORD of the Father, who spoke light into the darkness and form into the void.

• I seek to echo the WORD of the Son, who became flesh and dwelt among us to reconcile us to the Father.

• I seek to echo the WORD of the Spirit, who takes on flesh through her Church — the broken body of Christ in every age.

May my words and reflections — through writing, image, and speech — echo the WORD through whom all things are created and re-created, until all of Creation is restored.