Renovare notes cont'd - Words

"The opening page of our Scriptures presents us with God speaking words: saying the entire creation and us into being. 'And God said. And God said. And God said.' Everywhere and always as Christians follow Jesus we use words that were first used by God in bringing us and the world around us into being. Our language is derivative (as everything about us is!) from the language of God."
-Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way

Words: Moses and The Jesus Way - Richard Foster

God said, 'Let there be light' and the Big Bang occured.
God is our 'communicating cosmos' (Dallas Willard)

Words trivialized by the blogosphere, corrupted by doublespeak, and debased by blasphemies keep us perpetually distracted. We say more and more about less and less.

Responding in Faith and Hope

• Words that are few and full: Grounded and drawn out of silence unplugs us from the inane babel of modern culture.

• Words that bless and encourage: significant in context.

• Words that are crisp and clear and imaginative: "The difference between right word and almost right word is between lightening and a lightening bug." Mark Twain Imaginative words paint pictures, show and don't tell.