The Comfort of Words

I think the prayers are working. Honeybun was actually running to greet me at the door when I came in after being out a short time yesterday. Then, she ate a full dinner. That's the first time in a week she has finished her dinner! (If you are new to my blog, my dog has vestibular disease, also known as 'dizzy dog syndrome.'  Zillions of friends wrote, or texted me, said they were praying, and sent little encouragements. Thank you. I can't tell you how much those words of kindness meant to me.

This morning, she is not looking as chipper as last night. Many people have told me they had dogs with this issue, and it took several days (or weeks) to pass...but that it did pass.  So I try to be home as much as possible, and pray. She can't always get up on the couch by herself, so I need to be around to hoist her up there. She seems very grateful for the assistance. It's her favorite sleeping spot.

The good news is that while hanging out with my dizzy dog, I am writing up a storm on my new book. 6,000 words streamed out of me yesterday. If I continue this pace, the book will be ready in a month! The memories of the horse I loved as a child poured in, and the sections I worked on were very funny memories. It felt very good to laugh so hard in the midst of my worry over Honeybun. I thought, not for the first time, how blessed I am to be a writer, to be able to lasso emotions into words. I don't know what I would do with all those stampeding thoughts otherwise. I'd be crushed flat, for sure.

The written word is so critical in shaping my thoughts. The words of comfort from my friends did spread a little salve over the despair for my dog. I totally understand why John 1:1 says: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Word makes tangible things that are hard to grasp, hard to understand, or hard to contemplate in an abstract form. It is astonishing really to think that memories from fifty years ago, pictures in my head no one but me can see, can be communicated to others through words. How much greater is the message of God sent to us through the Bible! The Word was God. And we have been given the Word. This is incomprehensible and wondrous.

All the comfort of the universe...and all I have to do is turn the pages. 
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John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 8:58
"Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
John 17:5
And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.