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    Wordsmith
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    Wordsmith

    By Treat Preston

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    Wordsmith: A Person Who Works with Words is all about wordsmithing, vocabulary builder, vocabulary building, vocabulary workshop, vocabulary in use, vocabulary free, and vocabulary in classical roots. If you have a desire to learn all about words then this is the book for you. The meaning of words is not in the words, they are in us! In other words, the way you write your words and form your sentences is of the utmost importance to ensure the message you wish to impart is the one you meant to convey. Social media is loaded with fraud artists and not just the ones wishing to harm you. I belong to a good many book forums and I spot authors all of the time posing as the opposite gender just by the words they use and the way they string their sentences. This book shows you how important the use of words really is in any work of penmanship. When authors become exposed to their fraud, it really gets nasty. I want to make something perfectly clear; I am not against pen names and I firmly believe pen names are necessary especially if you are an author writing under multiple genres. Pen names keep an author clear and separate for each genre and allow no confusion on the reader’s part. I write under a dozen pen names because I write across multiple genre platforms. The deception I am speaking about is attempting to convince your readers that you are of a gender that you are not. Taking it s step further, there are nefarious characters posing as a plethora of things they are not and these characters are out to harm you. Dr. Treat Preston is a research scientist at Applied Mind Sciences and also one of the forensic investigators on staff.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Leland Benton
    Release dateMar 3, 2015
    ISBN9781311351326
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      Wordsmith - Treat Preston

      Introduction - Louder Than Words

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      To set the stage for what I am about to impart I would like to offer forth an article that I find very interesting…

      A wordsmith , according to Merriam-Webster, is a person who works with words; especially a skillful writer. As a part of my quest to become a wordsmith, I have subscribed to what has become one of my favorite online sites, Wordsmith.org. Each day the site sends a word of the day to my inbox. For example, the word bumbledom came into my inbox today. A bumbledom is a behavior characteristic of a pompous and self-important petty official. While I love the sound of bumbledom rolling off of my tongue, I am not sure how often I will find a use for it in my writing and speaking. But it sure is fun to drop it into conversation!

      Words are the lifeblood for writers. Indeed, words are to writers, what food is for chefs. Writers spend their days imagining just the right combination of words put together in such a way that a beautiful sentence or idea emerges. When this happens, what is written can actually take the reader beyond the page creating images, pictures, colors, sounds, and smells that transport the reader to another world. Just as a chef combines the right ingredients to create a delicious dish, a skilled writer mingles words and carves out sentences to offer an experience of transcendence beyond the everyday realities of life.

      Words are powerful. But there are times when words are not enough. There are mysteries that lie beyond their reach, such as when a joy experienced is too great, or sorrows are too deep as to be inexpressible . In such encounters, words seem rudimentary and inadequate. Nothing written can adequately capture the depth of what is being experienced or contemplated.

      A group of early Christian teachers understood that there was a relationship between the things that are spoken and the things that are ineffable, the things that are known and the things that are unknowable.(1) They understood that there was a limitation of language in the face of mystery. In the contemplation of the Divine, for example, God’s essence, or ousia in the Greek, is something that could not be captured by words since God is beyond human understanding. God must do the extraordinary—divine revelation—for anything of God to be known.

      Church historian Jaroslav Pelikan describes this early Christian theology as apophatic : Theology was, at one and the same time, sublime and ‘apophatic,’ that is, based on negation. As the evangelist John had said, ‘no one has ever seen God,’ which means one could see the glory of God, but not God himself.(2) God’s being or essence was beyond human beings. All that could be known or even spoken of was what God had chosen to reveal.

      And God’s chosen means of ultimate revelation was startlingly in a person. The writer of Hebrews proclaims: Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word (Hebrews 1:1-3). In the person of Jesus, who is the logos or Word of God , God is revealed.

      In Jesus we receive a vision of the ineffable God. No one has ever seen God, the Evangelist proclaims. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known (John 1:18). What we can know about God is centrally communicated in Jesus through his life and ministry. Jesus embodied God’s saving work of redemption in his life, his death, and his resurrection. God is revealed definitively in Jesus who came to seek and to save what was lost.

      As one who writes and speaks, I know the power of words.   In the defense of the gospel, a carefully crafted argument is often critical to breaking through the barriers of misinformation and misunderstanding. Yet, I am reminded that even words have limits, and people must see the gospel lived out, and must experience its power. The gospel must be embodied by those who claim to believe it. The oft-used saying attributed to St. Francis of Assisi preach the gospel at all times, and if necessary use words is a helpful reminder of the power of our lives in communication. And if

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