A Living Word - Softcover

Each morning on traffic-jammed car radios, through earphones on commuter trains, in the hurry of the early-morning home, RTE's A Living Word is a source of sustenance for countless people assailed by a relentless, information-jammed, fast-paced routine.
The basis for A Living Word is simplicity itself: a short meditation or observation, spiritual or secular, which makes people pause and reflect at the start of a new day.
This collection, compiled from the radio programme, reflects the wide range of its appeal. Many of its contributors are familiar names - Paul Durcan, Anne Enright, Sean Moncrieff, Paolo Tullio - others are less well known. Each, however, is given equal space. Their varying outlooks cover a broad spectrum, from lateral thinking for a New Age, to age-old wisdoms.
The compilation A Living Word fulfils the wish of many listeners to the RTE progamme - that the words they heard so fleetingly might be available to be pondered on, time and again; that lasting form might be grafted onto a transient moment.