Words...words...words. Recently I read that last year, 100 new words were added to the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary-words like bikini wax, brain freeze, chick flick, hazmat and Wi-Fi. Whether the world will be a better place because of it is yet to be seen, but we are overwhelmed with words. Words...words...words. The constant stream of rapid-fire raging rhetoric on talk radio; the unending stream of words on e-mail, i-Pod and spam; printed words, shouted words, confusing and contradictory words. To those who are caught up in the flood of words, Jesus said: "In praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their many words. Pray then like this..." And he gives us a spare, modest 66 words as a pattern for prayer. 

For those of us who are "T…