Verbose!

"God is the verbing of a noun."

Eugene Peterson in Practice Resurrection

As one of my favorite-ever professors, Norman Nagel, put it, "God controls the verbs!" Keeps us grounded, no? Humble. Thankful.

Peterson continues:

"We need to make ourselves conversant with the largeness, the sheer immensity of the world in which we are growing up in Christ. Every part of the landscape, every shift in the weather, every conversation, every person we meet, every brook we read provides a different and unique slant on what is involved: God's grace activated, God's grace in motion--in us. It isn't our business to figure this out or catalogue it or master it. Get used to abundance. God isn't a noun to be objectively defined."

Are you glad he's in control? Reminds me of a song (click on "song"--also on the image above to view a great biblical verb or two).