No Words
Sometimes, there are just not enough words. Emotion swells within us, and mere words cannot begin to express our deepest thoughts and feelings. I think that's why God has given us tears and hugs and music. When words fail us, we still have effective ways to communicate with each other and with God, himself. Of everything that God created, only people have been given the ability to speak. Most plants are unable to generate any sounds on their own, and most species of animals utter only one or two characteristic sounds. The words of human beings set us apart from the other living things in our world. With all of the words that humans can speak, you would think that words would be enough. I am amazed when I think about how instantaneously and effortlessly the human brain can communicate its thoughts, stringing appropriate sounds together to make words and sentences that make sense to the people around us. A newborn child communicates only...