Why Spelling Faith

In Man is not Alone the author, Abraham Joshua Heschel, a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr., an anti-Vietnam war activist, and a profound religious thinker of the 20th Century. Speaks the indescribable nature of God:



A tremor seizes our limbs. Our nerves are struck, quiver like strings.


It is one word: “God.”

Not an emotion, a stir within us, but a power, a marvel beyond us, tearing the world apart. The word that means more than Universe, more than Eternity. Holy! Holy! Holy!



This passage is so beautifully written that to add any commentary or context feels cheapening of the beauty of Heschel’s writing. What I will say, is that my core hope is that my life spells the essence of God in a tangible way. Similarly, I pray the words I offer here reflect who and what God invites us to be.