Not Getting It!

This morning I was in a good position the see the signers. Our church has several people who take turns signing for the death. I took classes thinking I would eventually be on the rotation to sign for the services as an ASL (American Sign Language) interrupter. Unfortunately my mind could never make the leap form thought to sign anymore than I could make the transition form English to Spanish when I was studying it in High School. I understood a lot more than I could get across to someone else. In spite of all the study I invested the words were not there. I finally resigned myself to the fact I can read sign without being able to express it.

I have been working with trying to help a new Christian learn some hard concepts like the Trinity. It has been a part of my belief systems for a long time and is naturally clear to me to someone who hasn’t always heard that as a part of growing up in the church. To someone who hasn’t always heard that as part of coming up in the church it can be as alien as sign is to a hearing person. I don’t have the right words to express that either.

Words should readily be at my disposal. I had been writing since my first journal I got when I was just a teenager. My writing has evolved over the years and finally come out of the closet.