Sometimes,
when my grammar/spell-checker tells me that my sentences are too long and I
should consider revising, I want to tell it that I don’t really care. There are
times when the deep thoughts and feelings of the soul come flowing out in such
woeful expressions of despair and longing that periods simply get in the way. There
are those mornings when praise rises up in the heart in such a fullness of expression
that coming to a full stop is a stumbling stone to what God has been releasing
within us
I would go so
far as to say that breaking up these long expressions to God would, in fact,
become a fabrication of rules of law rather than a childlike cry of longing for
our Father that will not be satisfied unless it can expend the fullness of
whatever sigh pours out from the broken heart, or whatever praise overflows
from the reverence and awe that has overtaken the soul.
I am all for
grammar Aficionados coming alongside me to help me improve my writing and
communication. However, there are those “sometimes” when the technicalities of the
computer-generated grammar patrol simply cannot get what is taking place within
the heart of God’s children. It is then that the long green line under a whole
paragraph means absolutely nothing.
If the long-sentence-consider-revising
expression is the cry of the broken and contrite heart, or the praise of the
overwhelmed child of God, our heavenly Father is unhindered in hearing our cry,
understanding our needs, coming close to us in compassion, surrounding us with
his love, taking us into his arms, and rejoicing over us with songs of love
that likely are not punctuated as well as my computer would demand.
Let’s just say
that this morning, in my time with God, there have been those moments when only
long sentences will do.
Perhaps there
is a long sentence of prayer waiting for an unrestricted moment to flow from
your heart in childlike longing to be closer to your heavenly Father than rules
of grammar would allow. Go ahead and give it a try. You can always edit your
sentences for length when you share your testimony of how God ministered to
your soul when your long sigh of words came to a peaceful rest on the calm
shores of your Father’s heart.
© 2014 Monte Vigh ~ Box 517,
Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com
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