Trying to Understand

Im learning sign language, and finding it an amazing experience. Part of it is making me challenge my learning styles and see that in reality I am a fair amount of an activist and kinestetic learner - or prehaps Im just so sick of textbooks, journals, the internet and reading this is a good release and something different to focus my mind and attention on.

I have found that a good way to build up my general vocab and speed and fluidity of signing is to learn signs to songs. Since the majority of the songs that I know off my heart are worship songs thats exactly what I have been learning. Sign Langauge first appealed to me when I saw a lady signing for interpretation at Icthus in 2007… I was blown away buy the beauty and emotion. I guess I had forgotten alot about that because now when I am signing all I seem to feel is emotion. I can express things to the Lord in words unspoken - simple hand movements that need my facial expressions or emotion behind them to make any sense. It is a beautiful language.

I have just learnt above all powers and that continues to blow my socks off at how moving a song that I knew pretty much off my heart can be when you ’sing’ or worship using it in a different way. I guess thats also why Cre8 strikes a chord with me…. worship in a different way. I feel as a coroprate church we need to explore this further, for refreshing and reminder that worship is not just about spoken words in song.

My vocab is growing but so is my love for the Lord, and my expression of that through sign.