The Beginning

Explobulary is exploritory vocabulary. A term created a few years ago with the purpose of going deep into the language of the Bible. To explore the character of God by exploring words in the Bible. Used once or a hundred times, relating directly to God's character or not, words I would never hear in America in the 21st century, etc. Mercy. Redemption. Free. Haughty. Disciple. Humility.
I called myself a christian for two years and then at Easter of my freshman year of college heard for the first time the meaning of the word "grace". It blew me away. There was a need for a basic understanding of grace. There also continues to be a deepening understanding of the truth of it. I long for that depth.
I am fascinated by words. How much they can convey and yet, at times, how unfaithful they are to express the depth of feeling. And yet I trust that God's word expresses exactly what it intends too. There is nothing left out, nothing left to the imagination, no "if only you were there, you'd understand", no need for emoticons.