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It’s really quite unlike me. Words have always come easy to this a mile-a-minute girl. Some might say, Too easy.
As far as I can remember, I could talk. Very
quickly writing followed all that talking.
Most of my life, I’ve been expressing myself through words.
Spoken words.
Written words.
But this year… this year that changed.
I’ve been struggling to put into words the thoughts and
emotions of this year’s Christmas season like never before.
It’s not that I stopped thinking and feeling – quite to the
contrary!
It’s just that I continually find myself laboring over
finding the right words to clothe those squirmy thoughts, those wiggly feelings sloshing around my soul. I browse through my internal dictionary and thesaurus, pick a word, maul it over, only to discard it as woefully insufficient.
There is a mile-high garbage pile of words resting in the cluttered corners of my mind.
How do you condense life
into a mere string of syllables? How do you confine what moves and breathes, sighs, laughs and weeps into motionless scribbles, quick sound-bites and 140
character tweets?
I am frustrated and humbled by the process. I feel out of control and vulnerable.
I feel like my tongue is glued to the roof of
my mouth and my pen has dried up.
I am through with you
words!, I want to say. I am done with
you and your impotent, insufficient ways! From now on, I am a gardener!
Then a thought catches me by surprise,
Maybe there is
something to this… perhaps that’s what Christmas, sort of, is … might be… could be... all
about…
The Word – The Word!
- that spoke world into existence, the
Word who talked to Moses and children of Israel, poured his heart out to
prophets and kings… The Word who spoke and was ignored, dismissed, misunderstood,
thwarted… the Word who fell silent for 400 years…
The Word finally said,
Enough
is enough. I am done with mere words. I am going all out here… I am going…
human! I am going naked! Male child… A boy… No more mere words… no more empty talk… I
am going out on a limb here… No shortcuts… no shorthand…. From start to finish,
with My people… from the beginning to the end… their God. In their joy. In
their sorrow. Their joy, my joy. My joy their joy. Their sorrow my sorrow. My
sorrow their sorrow…
The Word became flesh
and blood,
and moved into the neighborhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory,
like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish. John 1:14
and moved into the neighborhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory,
like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish. John 1:14
1 comment:
Praise the Lord for His amazing insights through you! As snow falls silently and brings silence to everything under it, so are His revelations about the supremacy of Himself and relationship with Him, over His written form, alone...
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