If you’re a word person, as I am, then perhaps you also have “a love affair with words.” You use words, but take care not to abuse them. You like to play with words, but you also take them seriously. You cherish them, listen to them, pray over them, respect them, have faith in them, and you know when to release them.
Words are a writer’s tools, the building blocks of our stories, articles, blog posts, tweets and books. Words have power. With words we instruct, entertain, woo, influence, write and speak.
God spoke the world into being. Jesus is the Word become flesh. Spoken words matter. Written words matter. Every word matters. They matter because they enable us to see the unseen, to know the unknowable, to grasp the undreamed of.
The well-chosen correctly-used, creatively-connected, ingeniously-employed word has power. If your words fit that description, and they are prayed over, respected, understood—then these words may form a piece of writing that is Christ-infused, Christ-honoring, and Christ-giving to a person and a world that needs the living Word.
~Catherine Lawton, publisher/editor/author
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This blog post is the most comprehensive use of words I’ve ever read. Understanding the effect of these ‘living words’ when I was young would have helped me be a more effective communicator in life.
Thank you for saying that. It means a lot to me. Of course some people are more “word persons” than others. Good teaching helps, though I think word usage is not only taught but also “caught” as we pick up language from what we hear around us … and from reading! 🙂