Conquering Vertigo

Alphabet of Grace

Frederick Buechner, author and pastor, wrote the following devotional in his book, "Listening to Your Life":

Life itself can be thought of as an alphabet by which God graciously makes known his presence and purpose and power among us. Like the Hebrew alphabet, the alphabet of grace has no vowels, and in that sense his words to us are always veiled, subtle, cryptic, so that it is left to us to delve their meaning, to fill in the vowels, for ourselves by means of all the faith and imagination we can muster. God speaks to us in such a way, presumably, not because he chooses to be obscure, but because unlike a dictionary word whose meaning is fixed, the meaning of an incarnate word is the meaning it has for the one it is spoken to, the meaning that becomes clear and effective in our lives only when we ferret it out for ourselves.

As a writer/editor, I want to clean up his syntax and sentence construction. But as a spirit, all I can do is applaud. The alphabet of grace. What a marvelous name for one way God communicates with Creation.

Would that we all employed the Alphabet of Grace in our interactions with each other. How would life be different?

posted by Woman In Love @ 4:27 PM