Living Words

There are so many things I could write about currently. Things that are on my mind, things that have happened, private things, happy things, aha-moment things, things that seem to be staring me right in the face things, things of life things. But somehow with all these things that I could potentially write about, every time I've sat down to write something, the words have disappeared. It's as if they heard the soft sound of the keys on my keyboard and made their way back into the depths of my soul waiting for another day. Tonight however, there are a few words that are sitting here, taunting me, daring me to speak them or write them rather. To take them and turn them into thoughts and join them with other words in a sentence. How strange, you're probably thinking, this girl has words teasing her... right.

I can't explain my fixation with words, my love for them, but lately this idea is one of the many things that keep pressing in the front of my mind, waiting anxiously for me to give it life. That's what words do, they give ideas life, they are living. How wonderful!

Living is a word I've used a lot in my recent posts. It's an adjective, meaning literally to experience being alive, or to have life. How can a word have life? It gives form to everything, in fact not only does a word have life; it GIVES life. A word gives life to the inner workings of your soul, it gives life to relationships, to emotion, to the very things that fill my mind. All of it, is words. Words are everything, they're powerful. I've been obsessed with words from the time I was a little girl, writing down quote after quote, reading book after book, studying lyrics of every song; soaking each word in, letting them tell me the meaning of it all. I heard recently something that has taken my love and obsession for words and multiplied it. It was something so radical my soul took to the idea instantly, allowing it to comfort me and then settle somewhere in my mind to be turned over carefully for awhile, trying to perfect it. I realized after some time that my words weren't really taunting me at all or hiding away somewhere in the back of my mind, they were simply waiting for me to give them the same life they had so suddenly sparked in me.

Genesis (noun, meaning beginning, creation, origin; Latin: meaning birth.) is the first book of the Bible and within the first three verses something profound happens; the world is created! And it's how the world is created that's truly the most profound part to me:


1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

The world was without form, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep...
There was nothing. Take a moment, imagine nothing; imagine something without form, void, and full of darkness. How does one describe something that is the absence of everything? One doesn't. One simply can't.

BUT THEN.... (And this is the best part, my favorite part.)

3 Then God said, “Let there be light;” and there was light.

THEN GOD SAID.
 

He said it! Said (verb, to say or to speak.)

God created us with words, He created the world with words, He gave life using words. It wasn't an equation or an experiment, it wasn't this + this = this. He simply spoke and then it was. Wow.

These words have jarred something deep within me to wake up, the words are coming, I can feel it in everything I do. I'm at the top of a hill or maybe a mountain, I'm holding my breath and I'm waiting. Don't ask what it is I'm waiting for; I can't describe to you that which I don't know, something that for now is without form. But I can feel it. The words making their way from the deepest parts of my soul all the way to my fingertips, inching closer with every moment that passes. Words, that once gave me life still living within me; quietly making sense of all that surrounds me.


What is your life going to say?


Live with purpose, find your words,

K&M