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Reading and writing. I’m going to blog about reading and writing. I mentioned it a bit in my last blog and in blogs previous but there is just something unique about the written word. Walt Whitman, C.S Lewis and many others have come to this same conclusion and used the power writing to touch millions of people. Thousands across the world have dedicated their lives to this thing called writing. It’s different than speech, it’s more profound than thought and deeper than intellect. I don’t know what it is about writing but it has power like nothing else. Writing has the power to last forever, or to be forgotten in seconds. The Lord chose power of the written word to reveal himself to us. He chose a book to retell the story of creation. He chose to write a book to tell humanity how to better know him. God knows the hidden, gentle, everlasting power of writing and so should I, so should we. John 1:1 tells us the “Word was God.” Whoa…this is huge. Have I missed something huge? Could it be that when I read the Word I am directly interacting with the Lord? There is so much more to the Word than we will ever know. I think that’s what’s great about writing. When C.S Lewis writes we may never know exactly how deep his words are. C.S Lewis himself may never know all that goes into his writing. That is what I love about writing. I think if humanity were to analyze any other book as much as they do the Bible there would be nothing left to learn from it. But because God is alive, His word is alive. We’ll never fully understand it, we’ll never stop learning. This well will never run dry.

I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I do appreciate good writing.