Words of Delight

There was a book out recently titled Women Who Love Books Too Much. Is that really possible? We mentioned one of our favorite pastimes is to open old books and stick our noses in to smell the musty paper and ink. Yes, it is strange. Try it. You will become addicted.

God created humans as lingual beings that use words to communicate the essence of who we are. God Himself sent us a love letter through His Word to introduce the essence of who He is. From His declaration to Moses of "I AM," God's Word is an eloquent, timeless collection of language about God as He communes with His creation. Human words join their voices to the resounding symphony of language.

From Thomas Moore's Meditations . . .
Sometimes in their chanting monks will land upon a note and sing it in florid fashion, one syllable of text for fifty notes of chant. Melisma, they call it.
Living a melismatic life in imitation of plainchant, we may stop on an experience, a place, a person, or a memory and rhapsodize in imagination. Some like to meditate or contemplate melismatically, while others prefer to draw, build, paint, or dance whatever their eye has fallen upon.
Living one point after another is one form of experience, and it can be empahtically productive. But stopping for melisma gives the soul its reason for being.

Here are words from the Scriptures that call for melisma as we gaze upon God . . .
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods,
In whose hand are the depths of the earth;
The peaks of the mountains are His also.
The sea is His, for it was He who made it;
And His hands formed the dry land.
Come, let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
For He is our God.
And we the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.
Psalm 95:3-7