Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World (Biblia.com)

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What is this World? What kind of place is it? "The round kind. The spinning kind. The moist kind. The inhabited kind. The kind with flamingos (real and artificial). The kind where water in the sky turns into beautifully symmetrical crystal flakes sculpted by artists unable to stop themselves (in both design and quantity). The kind of place with tiny, powerfully jawed mites assigned to the...

Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants. See that thing? What thing? That huge pile of stone that climbs to where the air gets thin? Yes. It has a lot of syllables. Let’s call it a mountain, okay? When I say mountain, that’s what I mean. It’ll be easier than building one every time. Is it supposed to blow up? Let’s call it a volcano. We feel the need to communicate

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