We love words in my family. We play scrabble. We keep buying book case after book case and they keep filling up. Nora’s is catching on too, just this morning she asked to watch Word World, an animated show where animals and things look like the letters of their name. “Dog” has a ‘D’ for its head and an ‘O’ and ‘G’ for its body. ‘Barn’, ‘House’, ‘Jungle’, etc,all look like the letters that spell them. This is clever and fun, but also very Biblical as well. Because in our Scriptures we see that God also loves words, they exist everywhere from all times. That’s what is at the heart of today’s profound reading from the Gospel of John, which our church values so much that we read it most Sundays also at the end of Badarak; “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God” John 1:1 (Ի սկզբանէ էր Բանն. եւ Բանն էր առ Աստուած. եւ Աստուած էր Բանն). God seems to love words, they are something fundamental to creation and to this ‘Word World’ we live in and call home.
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