Language is a Toy

Language is a toy meant to be enjoyed through play.

Rarely do I reflect on the divine blessing of language, but it must rank high among the beauties that God has created. With a few sounds, the flesh can express the ethereal: joy, grief, anger, love. Ands it's not just that the words point to meaning; the sounds themselves mean something. Language is a metaphor of the incarnation: an indissoluable fusion between the body and spirit. I worry sometimes, however, that we allow language to become a mere purveyor of information, a tool worth little more than the pack animal that carries the precious cargo. Language is certainly useful, but it has a beauty to be enjoyed in its own right--enjoyed in novels and plays and poetry, in punchlines and irony and alliteration.

Language is a toy, not just a tool. Enjoy God's blessing by indulging in a little play today.