Logos

Here's what I've got

words.

Language, words are not real. They are shells they are vessels into which we pour our experiences and meaning. Some words have shared meaning. Some are created to convey a personal meaning. Words are merely symbols creative by the collective.

if words in their barest form are meaningless why do we write, why do people journal?

People's minds are not full of words. They are full of emotions, the mystical and intangible. Words and language are the only concrete way to transpose that which has meaning and importance but no form. That which is intangible struggles to pour itself into the skeletal frame of language. In doing so, we can't transmit all of our meaning. But we try anyway. That way the next person who reads our words, might gain a fraction of our meaning and in turn pour their own experiences and meaning into the text...into the words.

Moving forward

The gospels: in the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God.

Jesus is the word or logos. What does this mean? God in his deity is so far beyond human understanding and meaning. He is intangible. In order for us to ever understand this intangible Being, God poured himself into Jesus. Jesus, the word, is the concrete, tangible form of God. Jesus is God is the Word. Why do we all seem to define and identify Jesus (faith) in different ways? Because as we receive the Word, we each pour into it our own understanding and experiences. None of us truly know the entirety of the Word (Jesus), because we bring ourselves into our understanding.

Perhaps as a community of believers we can better understand God by bringing together our understandings of the Word (Jesus). Together all of our understanding will still not equal the entirety of God, but will give us a better glimpse of the tangible Word.