Carpal Tunnel

Today, I have written 4,094 words. This includes a 2,100-word paper, 3 one-page assignments, and this blog. I blogged recently about how wasteful we are with our words.
Today, I'm thinking a little differently.

I think we have to be even more careful with what we write than with what we say.
Words are spoken once and disappear into the minds who heard them.
Writing can be seen by infinite future generations.

So, learning how to communicate with words, especially on paper, can be the most important skill you'll ever learn, because it will be the only way that people can learn about you after you pass away.
That or on random facebook videos that Evan films at 2 in the morning.

Anyways, it's not that I'm particularly going to care what people think when I'm dead and in heaven, two terms that I consider synonymous for Christians despite what some theologians think.
Writing is the only way that the vast quantity of human knowledge has been passed on from generation to generation.
If we didn't have a means of keeping track of what other humans have discovered, we'd have to reinvent the lightbulb every generation.

But, at the same time, it's fairly obvious that it hasn't helped anything but technology.
Society doesn't have any significantly smaller amount of violence, immorality, or foolishness than it did when Cain murdered Abel, yet we have this vast foundation of knowledge to base our societies and morality on.

I think this speaks of the power of Scripture.
It is highly unlikely that anything I ever write will change the way that someone acts or thinks 100 years from now.
But the Bible, portions of which were written 3500 years ago, change me every time I read them.
They affect me.

The Word who was with God in the beginning has real, tangible power.

God spoke the world into being, and the Holy Spirit is often referred to as his breath.
A book which has been copied millions of times from its original source still has that power.
No man can ever write that. The Bible proves itself.