Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

I find it interesting the way words change meaning and morph over time.  For example, at one time when we used the word text to tell of our Sunday morning gospel, we could count on the fact that people would interpret it as a passage from one of the gospels.  However, the meaning of the word text has changed remarkably with the invention of iPhones and droids and the myriad of communication devices we now have available for our use.  In fact, the word text has morphed from a noun to a verb as we talk about texting our friends and family members.  Another word that has morphed in meaning over decades is the word consumption.   For most of us, consumption refers to consuming food and “stuff.”  This word comes from Latin and means “using up” or “wasting.”  In fact, at one point in time it became a word used to describe the horrible disease known as tuberculosis, a disease that had no cure, devoured the body and was usually fatal.  However, over the past century, the word consumption has morphed and is now a univ